MIT chemists use MGHPCC computers to design impact-resistant plastics.

The MIT SuperCloud and Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center provided HPC resources for the researchers’ results.

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Story image: MIT chemists showed they can double the strength of common polymers, including polystyrene and a type of rubber used to make shoe soles.
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