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3D rendering of associated polymer’s inner make up
A 3D rendering illustrating two monomers forming a reversible double-hydrogen bond that slows down polymer movement without creating an elastic network. The rendering was created by researchers to show how associate polymers, a class of materials with unique self-healing and flow properties, function at the molecular level.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMR 1944625.]
Learn more in the University of Virginia news release UVA-Led Discovery Challenges 30-Year-Old Dogma in Associative Polymers Research. (Date of image: June 2023; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: June 16, 2023)
Credit: Liheng Cai/UVA
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