Understanding the Dissociation of Hydrogen Bond Based Cross-Links In Hydrogels Due to Hydration and Mechanical Forces

On the Origin of Supercontraction in Spider Silk

(2021) Noy Cohen et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Hydrogen-Bond Association-Mediated Dynamics and Viscoelastic Properties of Tough Supramolecular Hydrogels

(2021) Cong Du et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Influence of water content on the mechanical behavior of gelatin based hydrogels: Synthesis, characterization, and modeling

(2021) Vivek Manish et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Chain breaking in the statistical mechanical constitutive theory of polymer networks

(2021) Michael R. Buche et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Constitutive behaviors of tough physical hydrogels with dynamic metal-coordinated bonds

(2020) Ji Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Conjoined-network rendered stiff and tough hydrogels from biogenic molecules

(2019) Liju Xu et al.   Science Advances

Optimized Association of Short Alkyl Side Chains Enables Stiff, Self-Recoverable, and Durable Shape-Memory Hydrogel

(2019) Shuting Wang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

On the swelling induced microstructural evolution of polymer networks in gels

(2019) Noy Cohen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

A microscopically motivated model for the swelling-induced drastic softening of hydrogen-bond dominated biopolymer networks

(2019) Noy Cohen et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Programming the equilibrium swelling response of heterogeneous polymeric gels

(2019) Noy Cohen   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Effect of Structure Heterogeneity on Mechanical Performance of Physical Polyampholytes Hydrogels

(2019) Kunpeng Cui et al.   MACROMOLECULES

A pseudo-elasticity theory to model the strain-softening behavior of tough hydrogels

(2019) Tongqing Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Engineering the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Networks with Flexible Self-Assembled V-Shaped Monomers

(2018) Noy Cohen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Rigid and Strong Thermoresponsive Shape Memory Hydrogels Transformed from Poly(vinylpyrrolidone-co-acryloxy acetophenone) Organogels

(2018) Chen Jiao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Tough and Stiff Hydrogel with Tunable Water Content and Mechanical Properties Based on the Synergistic Effect of Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrophobic Interaction

(2018) Xin Ning Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Rheological properties of tough hydrogels based on an associating polymer with permanent and transient crosslinks: Effects of crosslinking density

(2017) Jingwen Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY

A statistically-based continuum theory for polymers with transient networks

(2017) Franck J. Vernerey et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Water-Triggered Ductile–Brittle Transition of Anisotropic Lamellar Hydrogels and Effect of Confinement on Polymer Dynamics

(2017) Muhammad Ilyas et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Dynamics of Dual Networks: Strain Rate and Temperature Effects in Hydrogels with Reversible H-Bonds

(2017) Xiaobo Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Advances in engineering hydrogels

(2017) Yu Shrike Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Rheological Behavior of Tough PVP-in Situ-PAAm Hydrogels Physically Cross-Linked by Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding

(2016) Guoshan Song et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Stress Relaxation, Dynamics, and Plasticity of Transient Polymer Networks

(2016) Fanlong Meng et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Thermomechanics of a temperature sensitive covalent adaptable polymer with bond exchange reactions

(2016) XiaoHao Sun et al.   Soft Matter

Weak Hydrogen Bonding Enables Hard, Strong, Tough, and Elastic Hydrogels

(2015) Xiaobo Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tough Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Hydrogels with Hydrogen-Bonding Network Junctions

(2014) Mingyu Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Time Dependent Behavior of a Dual Cross-Link Self-Healing Gel: Theory and Experiments

(2014) Rong Long et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Stiff, strong, and tough hydrogels with good chemical stability

(2014) Jianyu Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Resilin: Protein-based elastomeric biomaterials

(2013) Renay S.-C. Su et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

The effect of hydration on molecular chain mobility and the viscoelastic behavior of resilin-mimetic protein-based hydrogels

(2011) My Y. Truong et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Water-Induced Brittle-Ductile Transition of Double Network Hydrogels

(2010) Hiroko Itagaki et al.   MACROMOLECULES