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UVa researchers have developed a polymer that defies traditional trade-offs between stiffness and stretchability, enabling new applications in technology and medicine. A groundbreaking new polymer design developed by scientists at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science ...
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The following section should be required reading for every engineer... (not just marine engineers!)
4.2 Principles of Human Behavior:
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