Engineering the Impossible: Scientists Solve 200-Year-Old Polymer Puzzle

UVa researchers have developed a polymer that defies traditional trade-offs between stiffness and stretchability, enabling new applications in technology and medicine. A groundbreaking new polymer design developed by scientists at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science has overturned the longstanding belief that stiffer polymeric materials must be less stretchable. “We are [...]