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Article: Euro funds go to biodegradable polymer research.(RESEARCH ALERT)
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- Biomedical Materials
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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European polymer research and technology organization, Rapra Technology, has won funding worth 1.4 million [euro] from the European Union (EU) to develop what it describes as highly innovative supercritical fluid processing technology in order to make advanced multifunctional biodegradable polymer devices.
This research project goes under the name of Protec and will be carried out by a consortium set up by Rapra.
The main goals of the Protec project are:
* to produce porous biodegradable polymers that will demonstrate significant weight reduction, but which still retain the physical and mechanical properties of the compact material;
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