Materials that glow under stress have long been a dream for engineers who worry about the silent failure of plastics, rubbers, and composites. Now, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have demonstrated a remarkably simple way to give ordinary block copolymers exactly that ability — by blending in a specially designed polymer rather than rebuilding […]
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