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High Quality Tissue Culture Plasticware

Drawing upon its many years experience of supplying scientists with tissue culture treated microplates - Porvair Sciences have announced a new range more

Contemporary alternative for safe and environmental-friendly handling of solvents

They provide both high level on safety and environmental protection by contemporaneously reduction of costs. HDPE bottles by Merck eliminate the risk of breakage when handling hazardous or dangerous goods. more

News Plastics

• From plants to plastics

  Funded by the Knowledge Based Bio Economy program of the EU, the 13 M€ BioConSepT project starts in February 2012. The project wants to convince and inspire stakeholders of the Bio-based Economy by demonstrating the complete feasibility of an integrated chain approach, which is regarded as the basis more

• Some chemicals could make you fat

  Could persistent pollutants like DDT and PCBs or chemicals found in plastics be making you fat or diabetic? The answer may depend on what sort of bacteria you have churning around in your gut, according to Cornell scientists.In a paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Suzanne Snedeker more

• After a good third quarter: Bayer confirms Group outlook

  The Bayer Group achieved further sales growth and significantly increased earnings in the third quarter of 2011. “It was a good quarter for Bayer,” Management Board Chairman Dr. Marijn Dekkers said Thursday at the presentation of the interim report. He described the continuing growth momentum in the more

White papers Plastics

• Pressure Digestion for Sample Preparation
  

  What analyst does not wish for a universal method for processing all his or her samples? Pressure digestion represents just such a procedure for sample digestions and is therefore one of the standard sample preparation procedures currently employed in analytical chemistry for element quantification more

• Nature's Ingenuity Shows the Way
  

  Up to 80 percent of our experience of our visual environment takes place via our visual perception. Without spatial vision, we would hardly be able to stay oriented. In recent decades, the neurosciences have gained many insights into the complex processes by which our brain's visual cortex and cerebral cortex do the fascinating job of processing the signals originating from the eyes into an image. A study carried out jointly by Leica Microsystems and the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology showed how flexible and powerfull our brain joins visual signals to create an optimal spatial image. The results provided the basis for an innovation in stereomicroscopy which, in terms of resolution and focus depth, has broken through limits that were previously impossible to overcome. more

• UV/Vis/NIR Spectrometry for the Film Thickness Determination of Transparent Films and Layers
  

  Within nearly all branches of industry we find products, which are coated with thin transparent layers to improve the surface features: Window sheet glasses obtain changes in reflection and absorption behavior, ceramics are treated with coatings to lower water adhesion, coatings on metals create corrosion resistance or better sliding factors. Transparent coatings play also a major role in the semiconductor business. One of the important features to be determined and controlled is the thickness of the layers to balance performance and material input during development and production more

Publications Plastics

• Creating “Living” Polymer Surfaces to Pattern Biomolecules and Cells on Common Plastics

  Creating patterns of biomolecules and cells has been applied widely in many fields associated with the life sciences, including diagnostics. In these applications it has become increasingly apparent that the spatiotemporal arrangement of biological molecules in vitro is important for the investigati more

• Antimicrobial activity, cytotoxicity and inflammatory response of novel plastics embedded with silver nanoparticles

  Aim: Infections associated with medical devices are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Microorganisms are responsible for catheter infections that may then result in the local or systemic dissemination of the microorganism into the bloodstream. The aim of this study was to evaluate the a more

• [News & Analysis] Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit: The Power of Friction

  Engineers have reported that by patterning the surface of two plastics, they are able to generate a great deal of power with piezoelectric devices. more

Market studies Plastics

• India Petrochemicals Report Q4 2012

  The India Petrochemicals Report examines the enormous long-term potential exhibited by the local consumer market while highlighting short-term concerns about a sharp drop in manufacturing exports due to the eurozone crisis. In this report BMI also examines the way in which producers are grappling wi more

• The Healthcare Packaging Market 2011-2021

  Healthcare packaging is one the key industries driving our civilisation. The report analyses industry trends occurring in the global healthcare packaging industry and anticipates the progression in the market over the next decade. The report also surveys recent market trends among major companies an more

• Cardia Bioplastics Limited (CNN) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

  Cardia Bioplastics Limited (Cardia Bioplastics) is a biotechnology company, engaged in the development, manufacture and supply of technically advanced sustainable resins to the plastics packaging industry. The company’s packaging resins, derived from renewable resources, find use in the production o more

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