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Creating Stiff, Tough, and Functional Hydrogel Composites with Low-Melting-Point Alloys

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An Experimental Study on Stretchy and Tough PDMS/Fabric Composites

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Structural Design Elements in Biological Materials: Application to Bioinspiration

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Instability-Assisted Direct Writing of Microstructured Fibers Featuring Sacrificial Bonds

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Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

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Design of stiff, tough and stretchy hydrogel composites via nanoscale hybrid crosslinking and macroscale fiber reinforcement

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Overcoming the brittleness of glass through bio-inspiration and micro-architecture

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Solvent-Cast Three-Dimensional Printing of Multifunctional Microsystems

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The Mechanical Performance of a Biomimetic Nanointerface Made of Multilayered Polyelectrolytes

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Molecular and Nanostructural Mechanisms of Deformation, Strength and Toughness of Spider Silk Fibrils

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