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Worm clusters, jellyfish tentacles, robotic arms -- what do they have in common? Our new study in Nature Communications reveals how active movement leads to entanglement and stiffening -- offering new insights into polymer physics. nature.com/articles/s41... #PolymerPhysics #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter

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Giant activity-induced elasticity in entangled polymer solutions - Nature Communications Entanglement of polymers underlies a variety of phenomena across multiple scales that are driven by different active processes. Here, the authors study the viscoelastic properties of highly entangled,... https://nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60210-9

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