Stiff, strong, and tough hydrogels with good chemical stability

Soft Actuators and Robots that Are Resistant to Mechanical Damage

(2014) Ramses V. Martinez et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Degradation behavior of ionic-covalent entanglement hydrogels

(2014) D. Awanthi De Silva et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE

"Nonswellable" Hydrogel Without Mechanical Hysteresis

(2014) H. Kamata et al.   SCIENCE

Hybrid Hydrogels with Extremely High Stiffness and Toughness

(2014) Jianyu Li et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Robust biopolymer based ionic–covalent entanglement hydrogels with reversible mechanical behaviour

(2014) Damian M. Kirchmajer et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

(2013) Tao Lin Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Stretchable, Transparent, Ionic Conductors

(2013) C. Keplinger et al.   SCIENCE

Multi-scale multi-mechanism design of tough hydrogels: building dissipation into stretchy networks

(2013) Xuanhe Zhao   Soft Matter

Extrusion printing of ionic–covalent entanglement hydrogels with high toughness

(2013) Shannon E. Bakarich et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Supramolecular polymeric hydrogels

(2012) Eric A. Appel et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

Unlike Bone, Cartilage Regeneration Remains Elusive

(2012) D. J. Huey et al.   SCIENCE

Anisotropic tough poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels

(2012) Lin Zhang et al.   Soft Matter

Experimental determination of equations of state for ideal elastomeric gels

(2012) Jianyu Li et al.   Soft Matter

The role of crystallization and phase separation in the formation of physically cross-linked PVA hydrogels

(2012) Julianne L. Holloway et al.   Soft Matter

High strength graphene oxide/polyvinyl alcohol composite hydrogels

(2011) Lu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Lamellar Bilayers as Reversible Sacrificial Bonds To Toughen Hydrogel: Hysteresis, Self-Recovery, Fatigue Resistance, and Crack Blunting

(2011) M. Anamul Haque et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels Formed via Hydrophobic Interactions

(2011) Deniz C. Tuncaboylu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Highly Extensible Bio-Nanocomposite Fibers

(2010) Akhilesh K. Gaharwar et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

PEG−POSS Multiblock Polyurethanes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Hydrogel Formation

(2010) Jian Wu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ionically Cross-Linked Triblock Copolymer Hydrogels with High Strength

(2010) Kevin J. Henderson et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Why are double network hydrogels so tough?

(2010) Jian Ping Gong   Soft Matter

Hydrogels for Soft Machines

(2008) Paul Calvert   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Poly(vinyl alcohol)–acrylamide hydrogels as load-bearing cartilage substitute

(2008) Hatice Bodugoz-Senturk et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Design and Fabrication of a High-Strength Hydrogel with Ideally Homogeneous Network Structure from Tetrahedron-like Macromonomers

(2008) Takamasa Sakai et al.   MACROMOLECULES

The effect of polyethylene glycol on the stability of pores in polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels during annealing

(2007) Hatice Bodugoz-Senturk et al.   BIOMATERIALS