Surprise! Weaker bonds can make polymers stronger
Chemists discovered a new way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with polyacrylate elastomers, they could increase the materials’ resistance to tearing up to tenfold by using a weaker type of crosslinker to join some of the polymer building blocks.
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