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In a 2021 study, Sottos and her colleagues established frontal polymerization as a reliable method to manufacture biologically inspired polymer materials. Now, their novel technique builds on this by ...

Drying of a suspension droplet leaves a variety of deposit patterns of solutes 1,2,3. As long as evaporation is well controlled, drying-mediated self-assembly 4 is ubiquitously applicable to assemble ...