Super long fibres thanks to seaweed jackets

Scientists in Japan have made extremely long supramolecular fibres of a lipid-type compound by self-assembling it in microfluidic channels. Encapsulating the fibre in a seaweed gel jacket helps to support the structure and enabled the fibres to be drawn into long strands up to 1m long. The researchers used the fibres as templates to produce conductive polymers.

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• science
• seaweed
• alginate
• supramolecular
• chemistry