Silicon - More recently, many auto accessory manufacturers are using silicon-organic polymers.

Researchers have devised ways to use smart polymers to control the release of drugs until the delivery system has reached the desired target.

The architect said he had considered using fiberglass or polymers to replicate the facades but that those materials "just didn't seem right."

Since then, implants have developed into more complex devices using new polymers, such as polyimide.

There are advantages to using biological polymers over synthetic polymers.

Increasingly, it has become popular to reduce handgun weight and cost and increase corrosion resistance by using polymers.

In their most prevalent form these solid state dye lasers use dye-doped polymers as laser media.

Another area of interest is that of using synthetic polymers for sustained ocular drug delivery.

It is not immediately obvious that using polymers for contact lenses represents an example of the biomedical application of synthetic materials.

Some hair sprays use natural polymers and solvents like vegetable gums dissolved in alcohol.