The plastics revolution: how chemists are pushing polymers to new limits

Polymers have infiltrated almost every aspect of modern life. Now researchers are working on next-generation forms

Hermann Staudinger was a pacifist, but this was one fight he was determined to win. In 1920, the German chemist…

Full text: https://www.nature.com/news/the-plastics-revolution-how-chemists-are-pushing-polymers-to-new-limits-1.20433

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Mark Peplow

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Nature, 2016-08-17.

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Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
nature (Journal)
University of Fribourg
University of Minnesota
University of Texas
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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