Fluid mixing enables scalable manufacturing of soft polymer structures

Researchers have developed and demonstrated an efficient and scalable technique that allows them to manufacture soft polymer materials in a dozen different structures, or "morphologies," from ribbons and nanoscale sheets to rods and branched particles. The technique allows users to finely tune the morphology of the materials at the micro- and nano-scale. The paper, "Fluid Flow Templating of Polymeric Soft Matter with Diverse Morphologies," is published open access in the journal Advanced Materials.