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.
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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,...