{"id":166389,"date":"2023-06-25T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/adding-weaker-bonds-can-enhance-polymers-resistance-to-tearing"},"modified":"2023-06-25T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:22:50","slug":"adding-weaker-bonds-can-enhance-polymers-resistance-to-tearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/adding-weaker-bonds-can-enhance-polymers-resistance-to-tearing","title":{"rendered":"Adding weaker bonds can enhance polymer\u2019s resistance to tearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n02uMvpa76E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found that they could increase the materials\u2019 resistance to tearing up to tenfold, simply by using a weaker type of crosslinker to join some of the polymer building blocks.<\/p>\n<p>These rubber-like polymers are commonly used in car parts, and they are also often used as the \u201cink\u201d for 3D-printed objects. The researchers are now exploring the possible expansion of this approach to other types of materials, such as rubber tires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found that they could increase the materials\u2019 resistance to tearing up to tenfold, simply by using a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}