MIT creates spiderman like fabrics that are strong, stretchy and light The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claims that it has devised a way to produce a material that mimics the stretchy ...

Bacteria secrete a mucus-like “extracellular polymeric substance” that forms biofilms, allowing bacterial colonies to thrive on surfaces. “They can form everywhere, on catheters used to transfer body ...

A new recipe, or design guidelines, for a self-strengthening muscle-like hydrogel has been developed through strategic integration of computational, information, and experimental research. The ...

Biofilms are slimy layers of microorganisms that stick to wet surfaces. They may cause up to 80 percent of infections.

Ripping the material not only requires snapping the individual molecular strands, but also overcoming the vast intermolecular hydrogen bonds that pervade across the entire polymer bundle.

Chemical engineers have created a new material that is ... Ichihara, T. et al. Irreversible synthesis of an ultrastrong two-dimensional polymeric material. Nature, 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41586 ...