Tiny polymer springs give a boost to environmental cleanup
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

A study from Sujit Datta`s lab, led by graduate student Christopher Browne, found that a promising class of cleaning solutions behave in ways that both confound traditional fluid models and explain their usefulness to remediation efforts. Published March 2 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the paper helps solve a decades-old puzzle about why these cleaners only work in some conditions.