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According to sources in the Athletic Department, the bubbling and cracking that has marred the playing surfaces of the courts is potentially due to faulty construction methods. Underneath the hardcourt surface lies a layer of polymer which, if installed incorrectly, will cause the court to swell with temperature shifts or...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Tennis Facility Shows Signs of Damage | 9/18/2001 | See Source »

Langer also changed forever the way the materials used in these systems are designed. Researchers in the past had relied on off-the-shelf materials for medical applications. (The fabric in the first artificial heart, for example, was the same polyether urethane used in women's girdles.) Langer reversed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biomedical Engineering: Drug Deliveryman | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

His assignment in Folkman's lab was to find a way to release gradually a stream of large organic molecules into the tissue of a laboratory animal. Researchers had already tried encasing large molecules like the one Langer was testing in polymers (long-chain molecules, such as silicone, that are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biomedical Engineering: Drug Deliveryman | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

In addition, MIT professor Robert S. Langer is using polymers to advance many areas of medicine. He mentioned that polymer scaffolds could be used to aid the growth of skin in burn victims.

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten and Zachary Z Norman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard, MIT Students Host, Challenge Biotechnology Luminaries | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

Preserving that time is one reason Annie's parents, who both work outside the home, were drawn to Beacon. Annie plays recreational soccer, does art projects with Mom using polymer clays (a favorite hobby), helps cook dinner, does laundry, cleans up after her hamster and still gets to bed by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Schoolwork but No Homework | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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