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• Lumera Awarded Contract for Development of Next Generation Passive Millimeter Wave Sensors

  - 2005-11-21

  BOTHELL, Wash. -- Lumera Corporation (NASDAQ:LMRA), an emerging leader in the field of nanotechnology, announced today that it had signed a contract with the Pennsylvania State University Electro-Optics Center for development of polymer based electro-optic modulators for the detection of terahertz radiation, that is, passive radiation ranging from 30Ghz to...

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• Polymers toughened with novel elastomeric structures.(TECHNOLOGY UPDATE)

  - 2005-11-01

  Researchers at Pennsylvania State University are embedding microspheres of polyolefin ethylene-based elastomers into polymer matrices in order to create plastics with improved flexural strength and impact resistance. Potential applications for plastics that incorporate the elastomers include automobile bumpers that deform and recover rather...

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• Briefly Noted:.(fuel cells)(hybrid inorganic/organic polymer )(Brief Article)

  - 2005-01-01

  A hybrid inorganic/organic polymer first developed at Penn State University might offer improved proton conductivity as well as thermal and chemical stability in use as a membrane. The chemistry is also tunable via sulfonation. A sulfonimide polyphosphazene was comparable to performance of Nafion type PEMs. ...

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• Technical sessions

  - 2003-03-01

  MONDAY MORNING May 5 SESSION M1 Color and Appearance Color and Appearance Moderator: Bob Trinklein - Teknor Color (8:00 AM) Keynote Speaker Evolution of Color Quantification Harold, Richard #1272 (9:00AM) Pigments for Food Packaging - A Regulatory Journey Jackson, Donna -...

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• Organic composites could be made into artificial muscles. (Polymers/Ceramics).

  - 2003-01-01

  A new class of all-organic composites that change shape under an electric voltage and may enable the manufacture of artificial muscles, smart skins, capacitors, and very small drug pumps, is under development at the Pennsylvania State University, Uni A new class of all-organic composites that change...

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• Technical sessions

  - 2002-03-01

  Monday Morning, May 6 SESSION M1 Color and Appearance Moderator: Tracy Phillips PolyOne Corporation #989 (9:30 AM) Injection Molding and Color: A Basic Look at Design, Processing & Troubleshooting Angel, Greg - PolyOne Corporation #929 (10:00 AM) Modern Analytical Methods for Solvent...

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• Technical sessions

  - 2002-03-01

  SESSION M44 Applied Rheology Experimental and Numerical Flow Modeling Moderators: Christopher C. White - NIST and S. G. Hatzikiriakos -University of British Columbia #768 (2.00 PM) Full Field Stress and Velocity Measurements for Polymer Melts in Extrusion Dies Gough, T.; Spares, R.; Martyn, M. T. and...

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• Technical sessions

  - 2002-03-01

  SESSION T42 Plastics Environmental Physical Property Enhancement of Recycled Polymers Moderator: Dennis Denton Denton Plastics Inc. #101 (2:00 PM) Photodegradation of Polystyrene Young, Eric - Nigeria Society of Polymer Engineers #705 (2:30 PM) Effect of Multiple Processing Cycles on Post-Consumer Plastics Recycled via Solid-State...

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• Penn State University

  - 2001-09-01

  Polymers do not usually adhere to glass, but combining glass and polymer to create composite materials is possible if an intermediary polymer coupling agent is used as a go-between, according to Penn State scientists. "Aminopropyltrethoxysilane APS is the most common silane coupling agent for coating common silicate glasses," says Amy...

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• Nano-dispersions of natural clays make strong composites.

  - 2001-07-01

  Small amounts of well-dispersed natural clay can lead to environmentally friendly and inexpensive plastic composites with specialized properties, report researchers at Penn State University, University Park. "Adding very small amounts of natural clays to plastic changes some of their physical properties," says Dr. Evangelos Manias....

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