How One Manufacturing Technique Can Produce Soft Polymers with 12 Different Morphologies (IMAGE)
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Researchers have developed and demonstrated an efficient and scalable technique that allows them to manufacture soft polymer materials in a dozen different structures, or “morphologies,” from ribbons and nanoscale sheets to rods and branched particles. The technique allows users to finely tune the morphology of the materials at the micro- and nano-scale. This image shows how the interplay of multiple mechanisms can be used to form 12 discrete polymer morphologies by modifying the liquid process parameters.
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Orlin Velev, NC State University
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