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Multiscale Toughening Mechanisms in Biological Materials and Bioinspired Designs

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Tough and Water-Insensitive Self-Healing Elastomer for Robust Electronic Skin

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Quadruple H-Bonding Cross-Linked Supramolecular Polymeric Materials as Substrates for Stretchable, Antitearing, and Self-Healable Thin Film Electrodes

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Stretch-induced structural evolution of poly (vinyl alcohol) film in water at different temperatures: An in-situ synchrotron radiation small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering study

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Novel Defense Mechanisms in the Armor of the Scales of the “Living Fossil” Coelacanth Fish

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Towards Dynamic but Supertough Healable Polymers through Biomimetic Hierarchical Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions

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Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

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Multiscale Energy Dissipation Mechanism in Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels

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50th Anniversary Perspective: Networks and Gels: Soft but Dynamic and Tough

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Mimicking biological stress–strain behaviour with synthetic elastomers

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Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes

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Synthesis and Solution Processing of a Hydrogen-Bonded Ladder Polymer

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Hydrogen bonds of a novel resin cement contribute to high adhesion strength to human dentin

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On the tear resistance of skin

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Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

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Depth-profiling X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis of interlayer diffusion in polyelectrolyte multilayers

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Silk Fiber Mechanics from Multiscale Force Distribution Analysis

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Mechanical Response of Silk Crystalline Units from Force-Distribution Analysis

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