Neutrons — Crustacean-inspired cotton (VIDEO)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Neutron computed tomography reveals how water is constrained to travel only along certain strands of a special yarn coated with a water-wicking compound and a biocatalytic enzyme.

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Yuxuan Zhang/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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