Polymer platelets for leaky pipes described in New Scientist, 23 December 2006, p29. A technology company in the UK is developing polymer blobs that can form a temporary plug on leaking pipes in a similar way that platelets help stop blood leaking from damaged blood vessels. The blobs can be introduced into the pipes upstream […]
Tag: biotechnology
Glass Engineering For Sponges
Glass engineering for sponges described in an article in Science, vol 309, p253, 8 July 2005. A team of scientists led by Joanna Aizenberg of Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey has studied the skeleton of the glass sponge, Euplectella, to see how it constructs a strong stable structure from spicules of glass. Glass […]