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New chainmail-like polymer could be the future of armour
Credit: Mark Seniw, Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine, Northwestern University
Made of X-shaped monomers which interlock to form a sheet somewhat resembling chainmail, it's the first time a 2-dimensional, mechanically interlocked polymer has been created.
Credit: Mark Seniw, Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine, Northwestern University
This illustration shows how X-shaped monomers are interlinked to create the 2D mechanically interlocked polymer.
Flexible, recyclable, 3D-printed plastic
Flexible 3D-printed plastic. Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
Researchers have developed a way to 3D-print a plastic which is cheap, recyclable, stretchable, and flexible.
Credit: Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy
The technique improves the plastic's properties after printing allowing it to be reused many times and even self-heal if the item gets damaged or broken.
Japanese student project leads to new superconductor discovery
Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University. Lab
A new superconducting material has been discovered by researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan.
The unconventional superconductor could enable high-temperature superconductivity for use in transport, quantum technologies, and power transmission.
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Compact device could usher in next gen optical technologies
Credit: Junyin Zhang (EPFL).
The new device combines circuit designs to efficiently measure light.
The hybrid-integrated electro-optic frequency comb generator. More than 2000 comb lines covering 450nm spectrum can be generated within a footprint smaller than 1cm2.
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Credit: Junyin Zhang (EPFL).