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UChicago Scientists Develop a Plastic That Can Be Re-Formed as Needed
February 06, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news:

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Plastic can change from stretchy and bendy to stiff and rigid--and back

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Drifting at sea, isolated on a space station, or stuck in a war zone, engineers trying to build new things or patch together a repair are often constrained by the materials they have at hand. But what if they had one single polymer that they could coax into anything from a . . .

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