stretchability

Chemistry

Team solves a nearly 200-year-old challenge in polymers, allowing independent control of stiffness and stretchability

Collapsible Bottlebrush An artistic representation of a network formed by cross-linking polymers, featuring a folded backbone to which many flexible linear side chains are grafted. Credit: Liheng Cai, Baiqiang Huang/Soft Biomatter Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Virginia Researchers at the University of Virginia’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a new polymer design that…