Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that ...

UVa researchers have developed a polymer that defies traditional trade-offs between stiffness and stretchability, enabling ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science created a new design that seems to ...

Figure 1: Entanglements have quite different effects on the dynamics of (a) linear and (b) star-branched polymers, but both find new configurations by diffusion of their free ends from the tube.

“Imagine, for example, a heart implant that bends and flexes with each heartbeat but still lasts for years.” The breakthrough ...

Students at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that may ...