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Science 6 February 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5915, pp. 725 - 726
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168242
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Confined Polymers Crystallize

Piet J. Lemstra

Squeezing very thin polymer layers can cause them to form polymer single crystals that could make plastic films less permeable to gases.

Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands. E-mail: p.j.lemstra{at}tue.nl

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