Seashells have done an exemplary job of protecting their inhabitants for around a hundred million years, so perhaps it isn’t surprising that scientists and chemists have now replicated their unique structure in a manmade material. Taking …

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… forming a chaotic tangled mass, as they normally do. The resulting fiber was about 300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene along the direction of the individual fibers. The research team, led by Professor Gang Chen, reports …

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