![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090514114203im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field 'Transformative' Method for Generating the Smallest, Most Perfect Ultradense Polymer Films Ever
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February 19, 2009
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Like many creative but essentially conservative scientists, Tom Russell of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in more than 30 years of polymer science research, would rarely use the term "truly transformative" about his work. Until now.
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Source University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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