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  1. 🔋There is a small chance that rechargeable #lithium batteries will ignite, leak or even explode.🧯

    How to make them safer?

    Giuseppe Portale, Ass. Prof. of #Polymerchemistry and #Physics at the UG, and his team are building safer small coin batteries using solid #polymers.🪙

    Read our 3rd story on #batterydevelopers of #FSE 👇
    🔗 rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-foc

    🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #lithiumbattery #polymerscience #research #polymer #chemistry #ScientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

  2. 🌀 Inspired by the #ShanghaiTower.

    Qi Zhang & Ben Feringa's team developed the first synthetic dynamic helical #polymer.

    ➿ At low temperatures, the molecule looks like a coiled spring, which unfolds again upon heating. 🌡️

    Curious? Read more 👇
    🔗 rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-pa

    🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #FSE #research #chemistry #polymerscience #syntheticbiology