Cai Soft Biomaterials Lab Foldable Bottlebrush Polymer Networks Demo (VIDEO)

University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science

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A polymer material made using the Cai laboratory’s “foldable bottlebrush polymer networks” can stretch as much as 40 times more than conventional crosslinked polymeric materials.

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Liheng Cai, Baiqiang Huang/Softbiomatter Lab, University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science

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