Sometimes doctors delivered the polymer to the wrong place, causing internal bleeding and kidney damage.
He spent six months calculating the chemical formula and equations needed to produce the polymer.
At body temperature, the polymer-water bonds weaken, and the polymer molecules prefer to bond with each other.
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The polymer business is shrinking, agricultural revenues are stagnating, and the pharmaceutical division faces a slew of lawsuits.
When the thickness of the polymer layer was greater than 50 nm, essentially almost all the bacteria were killed.
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The polymer dramatically increases the sensitivity of the implant, while reducing its size.
The polymer was identified in the 1920s, when Wallace Carothers, the inventor of nylon, worked on it at DuPont.
As microbes traveled through the polymer-lined pipes and encountered the strong positive charge, the attractive forces pulled them apart.
Most important, the polymer had to flow through machines already in use.
After drying and being treated with another solvent, the polymer settles into a regular hexagonal pattern--a kind of plastic-like screen--on the crystalline surface.
The process took advantage of an electric charge differential existing between the polymer, which was positively charged, and the bacteria cells, which carried a net negative charge.
The idea uses tiny, widely spaced tiny circuit elements embedded within a stretchy polymer and connected with wires that "popped up" as the polymer was stretched.
At that point, the rig calculates where light entered the polymer by measuring how much it has diminished during its travel time, and then composes an image from that data.
The resistance of a detector changes as the polymer swells in response to its reaction with the odour molecules and thus alters the connections between the particles of carbon black.
P2i has worked closely with Motorola, who have now implemented the technology in 10 million of their latest phones and the polymer is also coating about 60% of the world's hearing aids.
In addition, objects can be imbued with sensor capabilities if wrapped with the layer, and even CCD's could benefit from having a slice of the polymer slapped on them to take photos at different exposures.
This month the site began cranking out the first batches of the polymer, called polylactic acid, or PLA, ready to be used in everything from clothing to carpets to the crinkly, thin films used to wrap candy and compact discs.
In absorption mode, the cloth can hold 340 percent of its own weight -- compared to just 18 percent without the polymer's aid -- and when it warms up, it releases the collected moisture as clean and pure potable water.
While the polymer's most obvious use would be for mobile devices whose entire surface areas can survive the keys in our pockets, Stanford also imagines wires that fix themselves and prosthetic limbs whose skin detects when it's bent out of shape.
It acts as an additional buffer to prevent the acidic polymer on the outside and stomach acid from reacting with the drug on the inside.
By 9 p.m. a truck carrying the correct polymer rolled off the loading dock and headed for the Windy City.
Good and bad news: The correct polymer was available at the plant, but was being shipped that evening to another customer.
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.
The non-removable battery is of the lithium polymer (Li-poly) variety, as opposed to the more frequently used lithium ion.
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.
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