Activity-enhanced elasticity in entangled polymer solutions: research by Christina Kurzthaler @mpipks.bsky.social and collaborators @hhu.de @tuda.bsky.social now published @natcomms.nature.com! doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60210-9
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Worm clusters, jellyfish tentacles, robotic arms -- what do they have in common? Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how active movement leads to entanglement and stiffening -- offering new insights into polymer physics. nature.com/articles/s41... #PolymerPhysics #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter
Giant activity-induced elasticity in entangled polymer solutions - Nature Communications
Entanglement of polymers underlies a variety of phenomena across multiple scales that are driven by different active processes. Here, the authors study the viscoelastic properties of highly entangled,...
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