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To: Ruffian who wrote (5569)	1/23/2000 1:00:00 AM
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New material invented. Full article at: eurekalert.org Excerpt below. "This novel composite made of a single chemical entity offers improved performance, particularly at the high frequencies required for the broad bandwidth used in high-speed communication," said Dr. Yachin Cohen, founder of PolyEitan and associate professor of chemical engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. (Eitan means strong in Hebrew.) Using the combined effects of temperature, pressure, tension and chemical solvents, PolyEitan is able to get the fibers to entangle and bind with each other, forming a very strong material. The process causes the outer layers of the fibers to swell, forming a brush-like structure that links up with similar structures on the supporting matrix. When the fibers solidify, they are rigidly bonded together by the entangled brushes. While the material is known as a composite, due to its physical structure, it is actually made up of a single chemical substance. 3DPE is of interest to the electronics industry because it is highly transparent to electromagnetic radiation at the extremely high frequencies that are increasingly needed for the next generation of wireless communication. For this reason, the biggest market for 3DPE is expected to be in circuit board materials for electronic devices, including high-speed wireless communications equipment and microwave devices.