Soft 3D Printed Plastic Might Pass For Human Hair. Would You Wear It?
Accidental Discovery Two postdoctoral researchers — Renxuan Xie and Sanjoy Mukherjee — working in Bates’ and Chabinyc’s lab played key roles in developing the new material, discovering it quite by accident while they were working on something for another project, they said. However, its ability to hold its shape so well clued them into its capability for use in 3D printing, Bates said. The key to Xie’s and Mukherjee’s discovery involves the self-assembly of bottlebrush polymers at the nanometer length scale, they said. This causes a solid-to-liquid transition in response to applie...
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