Entangled polymer solutions and melts exhibit elastic, solid-like resistance to quick deformations and a viscous, fluid-like response to slow deformations. This viscoelastic behaviour reflects the ...

Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF and the German Forschungzentrum Jülich have discovered why polymers in a solution become fluid if the solution is stirred. They discovered that the polymer ...

However, many artificial cells to date cannot be used to study how cells respond to forces as they don't have a cytoskeleton. TU/e researchers have designed a polymer-based network for artificial ...

Putting it to work. Turning that into a heat pump is remarkably simple. Let's say you have a surface you want to cool down. You simply arrange the polymer so that its shape after discharge (which ...