New family of polymers enhance mechanical, rheological, processing performance

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2004-03-29

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Virginia Tech. University Relations

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Hyperbranched polymers - tree-like molecules - are not particularly useful for the creation of plastic films and molded parts because they don't entangle. So Virginia Tech researchers have created segmented hyperbranched plastics, which do entangle and result in high-performance polymers.

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