Polymers react to stress
Christoph Weder
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Christoph Weder: Christoph Weder is at the Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland 44106-7202, USA. christoph.weder@unifr.ch
Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7243, 45-46
Abstract:
The latest polymers are chameleon-like: they change colour on deformation. The transduction mechanism underpinning this effect could be used to make polymers that respond in many other ways to mechanical stress.
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1038/459045a
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