Ink-free polymers colour under stress
Controlled “crazing” can colour polymers for many possible applications
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New ‘flexoelectret’ material could create high voltages when bent
Silicone-based material could be used in wearable electronics
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Negative order appears in liquid crystals
New result could help in the development of artificial muscles for soft robotics
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Shear forces help make stretchable hydrogel
Surprising new behaviour is similar to that in dissipative, far-from-equilibrium, biological systems capable of self-healing
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Bio-based monomers help upcycle plastic bottles
New technique could help with the serious problem of ever-increasing amounts of plastic waste
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Broken shoes and tyres could be history thanks to new materials that repair themselves
Novel elastomer that rapidly self-heals can be quickly printed in 3D
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Hydrogel material flexes its muscles
Material that increases in strength in response to mechanical stress could be used to make fatigue-free structures for a host of industrial applications
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Resonance photorheology technique sheds more light on 3D polymerization
New technique could help improve additive manufacturing
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DNA molecules help make reconfiguring ‘colloidomers’
Freely jointed systems could make responsive materials such as “soft diamond” that continuously rearrange themselves into new structures
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Polymer nanofibre could help improve solar cells
New material transports excitons over length scales comparable to the optical absorption depth
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