Smart material types include piezoelectric polymers, conductive polymers, piezoelectric and electrostrictive ceramics, electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids, electrochromic coatings, magnetostrictive materials, micromachined integrated devices, and biomimetic polymers and gels, shape memory alloys and polymers.

If this behaviour can be understood and extended to common commodity polymers, such nanocomposites could compete effectively with higher priced engineering plastics and find widespread application.

But I thought, no, no, experiment with resins, experiment with polymers.

In our world we use about 350 polymers to make all this.

Natural polymers, well ... I think that's what's most important, because these polymers have been tried and tested in our ecosystem for the last billion years, in everything from mushrooms to crustaceans.

We use five polymers in the natural world to do everything that you see.

This is made bone is made from a mixture of inorganic minerals and polymers.

And also, I thought that there would be synthetic polymers, plastics, embedded in the rock.

When that moves into polymers, you can change the elasticity, the fluidity of the form.

79. Conductive polymers can change colour and conductivity in response to chemical and electronic stimuli.

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The revised proposal was sent again for evaluation, and now the reviewers reason for rejecting it was that new polymers would not be safe to test on animals or people. Another graduate student showed that the polymers were safe.

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Shape memory polymers are commercially available in a number of convenient physical states, including pellets, solutions and liquids.

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(a) Commodity chains

Yet one of my graduate students synthesized the polymers for his doctoral thesis. We sent the proposal back for another review, only to be told that the grant should still not be funded, because the polymers would react with whatever drug we wanted to deliver.

Latin America s Commodity Windfall

Federation of Commodity Associations

Global contraceptive commodity programme

Supramolecular assemblies 82. Both natural and synthetic polymers can be designed to form large assemblies of molecules with useful properties.

Fossil fuels are also essential for the creation of plastics and polymers, key ingredients in computers, entertainment devices and clothing.

Commodity prices are like this.

Why Are Commodity Prices Falling?

DIVERSIFICATION IN COMMODITY DEPENDENT COUNTRIES

DIVERSIFICATION IN COMMODITY DEPENDENT COUNTRIES

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The Fund is an intergovernmental financial institution exclusively concerned with commodity development issues and commodity development projects.

Commodity dependent countries, particularly in Africa, will require an integrated approach, including special support to diversify their exports, add value to their commodity exports, build the associated supply capacity, manage commodity price volatility and develop a new generation of commodity financing schemes.

Although biomimetic polymers and gels are currently at the research and development stage, future use as biosensors and neural prostheses is possible.

United Nations commodity and other conferences.

3. Diversification in commodity dependent countries

A. Diversification in commodity dependent countries

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2. Agenda for commodity based diversification

Note 9. Global Contraceptive Commodity Programme

Too bad. That's Casablanca's leading commodity.

(d) In commodity dependent countries, special efforts are needed to generate funds for the development of the commodity sector.

Further, studies suggest that owing to concentration in the structure of international commodity markets, commodity producers are less likely to benefit from increases in international commodity prices at the wholesale and retail levels.

How can measures to increase commodity price stability and returns from commodity exports contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

33. We emphasize the need to address the impact of weak and volatile commodity prices and support the efforts of commodity dependent countries to restructure, diversify and strengthen the competitiveness of their commodity sectors.

The Silver Lining in High Commodity Prices

Informal briefing on reproductive health commodity security