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Polymers and soft materials news, October 2021

Improvements to elastic polymer could reduce plastic pollution

Elastic polymer conflict resolved to help reduce plastic pollution

28 October 2021Laurie Donaldson
Magnetic control of cell sheets promises new insights

tissue-like sheets of human tendon cells and magnetic nanoparticles enable the study of the effects of inflammation in tendon disorders

28 October 2021Cordelia Sealy

25 October 2021

Understanding how the mechanism by which mussels produce their glue

25 October 2021Laurie Donaldson

By developing a way to highly entangle polymer chains, researchers have managed to produce an elastomer that is both stiff and tough.

19 October 2021

13 October 2021

Colloidal crystals that mimic the nanostructure of opals can visibly and continuously document the temperature in the environment over a defined period.

8 October 2021

A new measurement technique has revealed that a single carbon fiber is more electrically conductive in the direction parallel to its length.

5 October 2021

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