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By mixing polymer powder in solution to generate a film that they then stretched, MIT researchers have changed polyethylene's microstructure, from spaghetti-like clumps of molecular chains (left), to straighter strands (right), allowing heat to conduct through the polymer, better than most metals.
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Image courtesy of Gang Chen <em>et al</em>.
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