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Taking a Tip from Mussels to Make Materials Both Strong and Flexible (2 of 2)

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Taking a Tip from Mussels to Make Materials Both Strong and Flexible (2 of 2)

image: Artistic rendering of a polymer toughened by marine mussel-inspired chemistry. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 Oct. 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Filippidi at University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes." view more 

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