DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) brings years of experience in fibers and polymer materials.
The technology could potentially be used in the high-performance composite polymer materials replacing metal in the new generation of superjumbo aircraft.
The company has two business segments: Polymer Materials and Electronic Materials.
He was giving a presentation on materials innovation and polymer chemistry related to next-generation electronics when Dr. Yi-Yan Yang, group leader at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore approached him.
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The new idea in Nature Communications uses small "islands" of energy-storing materials dotted on a stretchy polymer.
The team used inexpensive, environmentally friendly, easy to access materials- a commercially available polymer that can be easily processed from dilute solutions in solvents like water.
But the Sorona polymer is a lot nicer than nylon or other similar materials.
From its urethane foam in the track, polymer fibres in the super-fast hockey pitches, materials in walls, floors and roofs of stadia and insulation technology in the broadcast and electricity wiring cables to technology in the signage in the controversial Games Lanes, the company's hands are all over London 2012.
After ten years of research, David Martin, a materials scientist at the University of Michigan, came up with a polymer that could help deaf people hear and blind people see.
Select S Series models sport a premium and elegant design in Black or White with magnesium and aluminum materials, and all of them incorporate a built-in lithium polymer battery that when coupled with the all new and advanced large-capacity optional sheet battery, you can stay mobile and unplugged for up to 15 hours.
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Also, the new polymer enables a surface to repair damage automatically, without the application of any other materials, meaning that the new surfaces should be affordable.
Engineers and scientists are developing many new types of materials such as carbon nanotubes, ceramic-matrix nanocomposites (and their metal-matrix and polymer-matrix equivalents), and new carbon fibers.
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