Reposted by Will Dichtel
And then from Madison Bardot and collaborators in the Becker, Muller & Dichtel groups, there's MOLECULAR chain mail, locked in place by siloxanes and then exfoliated in sheets
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Mechanically interlocked two-dimensional polymers
Mechanical bonds arise between molecules that contain interlocked subunits, such as one macrocycle threaded through another. Within polymers, these linkages will confer distinctive mechanical properti...
