New NSF MONET Publication in Science Advances

A team from the Johnson lab and others at MIT collaborated with Université Paris-Saclay to propose a model where the relaxation of polymer gels in the dilute regime originates from elementary events in which the bonds connecting two neighboring cross-linkers all disconnect. The approach is simple enough to be extended to any cross-linker size and could thus be harnessed for the rational design of complex viscoelastic materials.

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