polymers

You mean they change colour because they ingest polymers?

The Pacific is filled with polymers just because people love to use plastics and don't recycle them, fishes dye (external cost) every day because they confuse it with jellyfish.

The problem with encoding information into DNA is that writing serial polymers accurately is difficult and slow.

We could take his fluid simulation method from computer graphics and apply it to a problem related to molten polymers.

The polymers themselves are formed of chains of smaller monomers covalently bonded to each other.

Fishes die everyday because they eat polymers and can't digest it, their stomachs fill and there is no space for food.

Endocrine disruptors in the environment can result from degradation of certain polymers, releasing chemicals such as bisphenol-A (BPA), phthalates and other compounds.

Why don't I see many articles on HN about cellular networks, or fuel cell polymers, or organic photovoltaics?

Largely agreed, though I think information storage in sequenced polymers in general is fairly interesting, but we are long ways off.

The most inspiring thing I saw was work on automated high-throughput materials discovery (I believe the examples at the time were polymers).

Is there much research being done on alternate polymers or binders which can be produced to be used as an alternative on a large scale to sand?

I've done accelerated aging on polymers (medical, but I bet it's similar).

We also "shelf age" another test group of polymers from the same batch by placing them on the shelf.

I've experimented with adding super absorbent polymers to hold the water ("water beads for plants" or something like that).

Interesting Pianos, as they're advances, are very prone to decay I wonder if there are studies of building pianos with more stable materials (like polymers?) That being said, it would be better if the author knew about the difference between "its" and "it's"