Tag Archives: polymer

Potential windows: Transparent solar panel material

News: Alternative Energy    November 5, 2010
“Roll up the windows, honey. The battery needs charging.” Transparent solar cells could have many uses, which puts them on the alternative energy research agenda. One approach, described in the journal Chemistry of Materials [Structural dynamics and charge transfer via complexation with fullerene in large area conjugated polymer honeycomb thin films] developed by a research [...]
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Found: Another molecule needed at the origin of life

News: Origin of Life    March 9, 2010
Very often important science is constructed by a myriad of small advances in knowledge. This is almost certainly going to be true for answering one of the big questions in biology: “How did life on Earth originate?” It’s been known for a long time that it probably originated where there was a concentrated mixture of [...]
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Synthetic muscle restores the blink of an eye

News: Synthetic Biology    January 18, 2010
When you flex your muscles, the muscle cells contract or expand under neurological stimulus (nerve impulses). Something similar happens with a relatively new material called a dialectric electroactive polymer when it is used to create an electroactive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM). Don’t let the lengthy jargon be confusing. The principle is fairly simple, much like [...]
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