Faulty 'Zipping' (IMAGE)

Rice University

Faulty 'Zipping'

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Faulty 'zipping' of polymer-based ribbons can lead to formation of D-loops in graphitic sheets of carbon fibers, according to scientists at Rice University.

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Nitant Gupta and Evgeni Penev/Rice University

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