Making mechanical stress visible in polymers (IMAGE)

Institute of Science Tokyo

Making mechanical stress visible in polymers

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Illustration of a styrene–butadiene–styrene polymer material being stretched and emitting yellow-green fluorescence in response to mechanical stress.

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Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

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