Strategy to Fabricate a Strong and Supertough Bio-Inspired Fiber with Organic–Inorganic Networks in a Green and Scalable Way

A Biologically Muscle‐Inspired Polyurethane with Super‐Tough, Thermal Reparable and Self‐Healing Capabilities for Stretchable Electronics

(2021) Wu Bin Ying et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

A Spider‐Silk‐Inspired Wet Adhesive with Supercold Tolerance

(2021) Xi Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Why Polyurethanes Have Been Used in the Manufacture and Design of Cardiovascular Devices: A Systematic Review

(2020) Kelly Navas-Gómez et al.   Materials

A Review of Shape Memory Polymers and Composites: Mechanisms, Materials, and Applications

(2020) Yuliang Xia et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Renewable Castor‐Oil‐based Waterborne Polyurethane Networks: Simultaneously Showing High Strength, Self‐Healing, Processability and Tunable Multishape Memory

(2020) Chaoqun Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bio-Inspired Stretchable and Contractible Tough Fiber by the Hybridization of GO/MWNT/Polyurethane

(2019) Hyunsoo Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Multiscale Toughening Mechanisms in Biological Materials and Bioinspired Designs

(2019) Wei Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Scalable Spider‐Silk‐Like Supertough Fibers using a Pseudoprotein Polymer

(2019) Lin Gu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Interpenetrating Liquid-Crystal Polyurethane/Polyacrylate Elastomer with Ultrastrong Mechanical Property

(2019) Hai-Feng Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct Synthesis of Polyurea Thermoplastics from CO2 and Diamines

(2019) Shan Jiang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biomimetic Mineralized Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Macrofiber with Spider Silk‐Like Supertoughness

(2019) Yadong Yu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Transparent, Mechanically Strong, Extremely Tough, Self‐Recoverable, Healable Supramolecular Elastomers Facilely Fabricated via Dynamic Hard Domains Design for Multifunctional Applications

(2019) Dong Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Crosslinking ionic oligomers as conformable precursors to calcium carbonate

(2019) Zhaoming Liu et al.   NATURE

Artificial spider silk from ion-doped and twisted core-sheath hydrogel fibres

(2019) Yuanyuan Dou et al.   Nature Communications

Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of Engineered Protein‐Based Adhesives and Fibers

(2019) Jing Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic-Inorganic Copolymerization for a Homogenous Composite without an Interphase Boundary

(2019) Yadong Yu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mechanically Strong Globular-Protein-Based Fibers Obtained Using a Microfluidic Spinning Technique

(2019) Haonan He et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

High strength in combination with high toughness in robust and sustainable polymeric materials

(2019) Xiaojian Liao et al.   SCIENCE

Chemical Synthesis of Silk-Mimetic Polymers

(2019) Amrita Sarkar et al.   Materials

Exceptionally Ductile and Tough Biomimetic Artificial Nacre with Gas Barrier Function

(2018) Alexander Eckert et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2018) Yan Song et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Three-dimensional printing of hierarchical liquid-crystal-polymer structures

(2018) Silvan Gantenbein et al.   NATURE

Biomimetic Supertough and Strong Biodegradable Polymeric Materials with Improved Thermal Properties and Excellent UV-Blocking Performance

(2018) Xiao Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Learning from nature: constructing high performance graphene-based nanocomposites

(2017) Shanshan Gong et al.   Materials Today

Chemical Synthesis of Multiblock Copolypeptides Inspired by Spider Dragline Silk Proteins

(2017) Kousuke Tsuchiya et al.   ACS Macro Letters

“Nano-Fishnet” Structure Making Silk Fibers Tougher

(2016) Ruchuan Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Silk–Its Mysteries, How It Is Made, and How It Is Used

(2015) Davoud Ebrahimi et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Silk–Its Mysteries, How It Is Made, and How It Is Used

(2015) Davoud Ebrahimi et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Synthesis and characterization of low crystalline waterborne polyurethane for potential application in water-based ink binder

(2013) Changqing Fang et al.   PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS

Structural Biological Materials: Critical Mechanics-Materials Connections

(2013) M. A. Meyers et al.   SCIENCE

Towards High-Performance Bioinspired Composites

(2012) André R. Studart   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Molecular Engineering of Elastic and Strong Supertough Polyurethanes

(2012) Borja Fernández-d’Arlas et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Synergistic toughening of composite fibres by self-alignment of reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes

(2012) Min Kyoon Shin et al.   Nature Communications

The conflicts between strength and toughness

(2011) Robert O. Ritchie   NATURE MATERIALS

Synthesis and characterization of poly(ether-urethane)s derived from 3,6-diisobutyl-2,5-diketopiperazine and PTMG and study of their degradability in environment

(2011) Fatemeh Rafiemanzelat et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Spider Silk: From Soluble Protein to Extraordinary Fiber

(2009) Markus Heim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION