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Polymers, Italians in miniature: messy, but very flexible – Rubber soles: a brief history of tennis shoes, from rubberwood to sneakers – Chains for all tastes: from granny’s phone to microfluidics, from baby colic to space ships – Stretching and bending without breaking: the surprising mechanical properties of rubber and plastic – Snake dance: polymer coils, nets and molasses – Elastic by chance: entropy tricks and superheroes – Panta rei: even the mountains flow before God – Indiana Jones’ nightmares: the rheology of reptiles – Polymers to the charge: the polyelectrolytes.
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Piazza, R. (2011). Freedom in chains. In: Soft Matter. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0585-2_3
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