This book addresses an issue of current importance to plastics and manufacturing industry readers, and also to society as a whole. Its guiding question concerns the production, consumption, use, and disposal of plastic products, and how our cultural practice of...
Ceramic Integration and Joining Technologies
This is the only book that addresses the integration of advanced ceramics and ceramic-base materials in a single resource. Written by acknowledged experts representing industry, government, and academia, the book addresses integration issues in such areas as...

Doctors in the Bloodstream: Using Polymers to Diagnose and Treat Disease
Researchers at the Wooley Laboratory have used polymers to mimic the characteristics and actions of biological nanoparticles and structures.

Printing Skin: An Inkjet for Tissue Engineering
Scientists in Lausanne have developed an inkjet printing system to produce artificial living tissue.

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It’s a fascinating time for polymer science in fields as diverse as energy generation, biomedical applications, and nanotechnology.

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Seeking Candidates for Porous Burners
The benefits of porous burner technology are amazing, but many materials science problems remain to be solved.

Trojan Horse Causes Nanoparticle Allergy
Workers with existing allergic conditions have worse reactions when exposed to nanoparticles, caused by a Trojan horse known as an exosome.

What Is My (Nano)Material Good For?
Whatever happened to curiosity-driven research aimed at the creation of fundamental knowledge without the need for immediate application?

In vivo oxygen measurement
For measuring mitochondrial oxygen pressure clinically, just apply a cream on the skin.