Mechanically Robust Elastomers Enabled by a Facile Interfacial Interactions‐Driven Sacrificial Network

Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties

(2021) Xuanhe Zhao et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Nanophase Separation in Immiscible Double Network Elastomers Induces Synergetic Strengthening, Toughening, and Fatigue Resistance

(2021) Yong Zheng et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Speed-Induced Extensibility Elastomers with Good Resilience and High Toughness

(2021) Haiming Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Molecular mechanism of abnormally large nonsoftening deformation in a tough hydrogel

(2021) Ya Nan Ye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sodium alginate crosslinked oxidized natural rubber supramolecular network with rapid self-healing at room temperature and improved mechanical properties

(2021) Qi Shen et al.   COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING

Robust Physically Linked Double-Network Ionogel as Flexible Bimodal Sensor

(2020) Jingxian Sun et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Mimicking Mechanical Robustness of Natural Rubber Based on Sacrificial Network Constructed by Phospholipids

(2020) Yan-Chan Wei et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Recyclable and Dual Cross‐Linked High‐Performance Polymer with an Amplified Strength–Toughness Combination

(2020) Mengqi Du et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fabrication of Bioinspired Hydrogels: Challenges and Opportunities

(2020) Hailong Fan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Toughening natural rubber by the innate sacrificial network

(2020) Wei-Wei Yu et al.   POLYMER

Exploring the unique characteristics of natural rubber induced by coordination interaction between proteins and Zn2+

(2020) Yan-Chan Wei et al.   POLYMER

Elucidating the Role of Interfacial Hydrogen Bonds on Glass Transition Temperature Change in a Poly(Vinyl Alcohol)/SiO 2 Polymer‐Nanocomposite by Noncovalent Interaction Characterization and Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations

(2020) Ritwik Panigrahi et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Thermal-oxidative aging behaviors of shape memory nitrile butadiene rubber composite with dual crosslinking networks

(2020) Jihua Zhang et al.   POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY

Integrating Sacrificial Bonds into Dynamic Covalent Networks toward Mechanically Robust and Malleable Elastomers

(2019) Yingjun Liu et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Ultra-strong long-chain polyamide elastomers with programmable supramolecular interactions and oriented crystalline microstructures

(2019) Lingzhi Song et al.   Nature Communications

Highly Stretchable and Self-Healing “Solid–Liquid” Elastomer with Strain-Rate Sensing Capability

(2019) Qi Wu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fabrication of Tough and Stretchable Hybrid Double-Network Elastomers Using Ionic Dissociation of Polyelectrolyte in Nonaqueous Media

(2019) Takahiro Matsuda et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Constructing Sacrificial Multiple Networks To Toughen Elastomer

(2019) Zhiyu Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Mechanically Robust, Self-Healable, and Reprocessable Elastomers Enabled by Dynamic Dual Cross-Links

(2019) Yi Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Multiscale Toughening Mechanisms in Biological Materials and Bioinspired Designs

(2019) Wei Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultra-Tough, Strong, and Defect-Tolerant Elastomers with Self-Healing and Intelligent-Responsive Abilities

(2019) Yong Zhu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Elastomer Reinforced with Innate Sulfur-Based Cross-Links as Ligands

(2019) Xuhui Zhang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Highly Stretchable and Tough Physical Silk Fibroin–Based Double Network Hydrogels

(2019) Yu Zhao et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Non-rubber components tuning mechanical properties of natural rubber from vulcanization kinetics

(2019) Yan-Chan Wei et al.   POLYMER

Facile Strategy for the Biomimetic Heterogeneous Design of Elastomers with Mechanical Robustness, Malleability, and Functionality

(2019) Jing Huang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Toughening Elastomers Using a Mussel-Inspired Multiphase Design

(2018) Xuhui Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Effects of Binding Energy of Bioinspired Sacrificial Bond on Mechanical Performance of cis-1,4-Polyisoprene with Dual-crosslink

(2018) Sheng Wang et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE

Overcome the Conflict between Strength and Toughness in Poly(lactide) Nanocomposites through Tailoring Matrix-Filler Interface

(2018) Yang Sun et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Integrated Functional High-Strength Hydrogels with Metal-Coordination Complexes and H-Bonding Dual Physically Cross-linked Networks

(2018) Xuefeng Li et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Bioinspired Engineering towards Tailoring Advanced Lignin/Rubber Elastomers

(2018) Haixu Wang et al.   Polymers

Super tough and strong self-healing elastomers based on polyampholytes

(2018) Yan Peng et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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

(2018) Xiao Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Multiscale Energy Dissipation Mechanism in Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels

(2018) Kunpeng Cui et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Bioinspired Design of a Robust Elastomer with Adaptive Recovery via Triazolinedione Click Chemistry

(2017) Jing Huang et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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

(2017) Costantino Creton   MACROMOLECULES

Designing toughness and strength for soft materials

(2017) Xuanhe Zhao   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes

(2017) Emmanouela Filippidi et al.   SCIENCE

An advanced elastomer with an unprecedented combination of excellent mechanical properties and high self-healing capability

(2017) Jie Liu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Characterizing Large Strain Elasticity of Brittle Elastomeric Networks by Embedding Them in a Soft Extensible Matrix

(2016) Etienne Ducrot et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Rational design of covalent interfaces for graphene/elastomer nanocomposites

(2016) Zhijun Yang et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bioinspired Interface Engineering in Elastomer/Graphene Composites by Constructing Sacrificial Metal-Ligand Bonds

(2016) Jing Huang et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Bioinspired Engineering of Two Different Types of Sacrificial Bonds into Chemically Cross-Linked cis-1,4-Polyisoprene toward a High-Performance Elastomer

(2016) Jie Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Promoted strain-induced-crystallization in synthetic cis-1,4-polyisoprene via constructing sacrificial bonds

(2016) Jie Liu et al.   POLYMER

Toughening diene elastomers by strong hydrogen bond interactions

(2016) Ming-Chao Luo et al.   POLYMER

Strikingly improved toughness of nonpolar rubber by incorporating sacrificial network at small fraction

(2015) Xuhui Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Enhanced Glassy State Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites via Supramolecular Interactions

(2015) Amir Hashemi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Rational Design of Graphene Surface Chemistry for High-Performance Rubber/Graphene Composites

(2014) Zhenghai Tang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

(2014) E. Ducrot et al.   SCIENCE

Tuning Radical Species in Graphene Oxide in Aqueous Solution by Photoirradiation

(2013) Xue-Liang Hou et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Surface nanostructure of Hevea brasiliensis natural rubber latex particles

(2011) Kanjanee Nawamawat et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS

The conflicts between strength and toughness

(2011) Robert O. Ritchie   NATURE MATERIALS

Tough, Bio-Inspired Hybrid Materials

(2008) E. Munch et al.   SCIENCE