Martin Andersson, left, and Anand Kumar Rajasekharan (IMAGE)

Chalmers University of Technology

Martin Andersson, left, and Anand Kumar Rajasekharan

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'There are many diseases where the cartilage breaks down and friction results between bones, causing great pain for the affected person. This material could potentially act as a replacement in those cases,' says Martin Andersson, research leader for the study and Professor of Chemistry at Chalmers. 'We were really surprised that the material turned to be very soft, flexible and extremely elastic. It would not work as a bone replacement material, we concluded. But the new and unexpected properties made our discovery just as exciting,' says Anand Kumar Rajasekharan, PhD in Materials Science and one of the researchers behind the study.

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