UVa researchers have developed a polymer that defies traditional trade-offs between stiffness and stretchability, enabling ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that ...

An artistic rendering of a network formed by crosslinking foldable bottlebrush polymers, which feature a collapsed backbone grafted with many flexible linear side chains. Cai Soft Biomaterials Lab ...

A polymer material made using the Cai laboratory’s “foldable bottlebrush polymer networks” can stretch as much as 40 times more than conventional crosslinked polymeric materials. Cai Soft ...

Their "foldable bottlebrush polymer networks" promise to transform fields ranging from healthcare to robotics ... “Imagine, ...

“Our team realized that by designing foldable bottlebrush polymers that could store extra length within their own structure, we could ‘decouple’ stiffness and extensibility — in other words, build in ...

Students at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that may ...

Oleg Borisovich Ptitsyn — a major figure in the field of protein folding — died ... field of chemical physics for molecular biology, turning from synthetic polymers to biomolecules.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science created a new design that seems to ...