Drifting at sea, isolated on a space station, or stuck in a war zone, engineers trying to build new things or patch together a repair are often constrained by the materials they have at hand. But what if they had one single polymer that they could coax into anything from a rubber band-like material or a ball of silly putty to a flexible sheet of plastic or a stiff, molded device?
Read at UChicago News: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-scientists-develop-plastic-can-be-re-formed-needed
