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Science 6 September 1991:
Vol. 253. no. 5024, pp. 1121 - 1123
DOI: 10.1126/science.253.5024.1121
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Reversible Decrease of Gel-Solvent Friction

MASAYUKI TOKITA 1 and TOYOIGHI TANAKA 1

1 Department of Physics and Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139

The friction between water and the polymer network of a gel is found to decrease reversibly by three orders of magnitude and appears to diminish as the gel approaches a certain temperature at constant volume and network structure.

Submitted on May 13, 1991
Accepted on July 24, 1991


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