Untangling the mechanics of entanglements in slide-ring gels towards both super-deformability and toughness

Dynamic covalent self-assembly of mechanically interlocked molecules solely made from peptides

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Multivalued Inverse Design: Multiple Surface Geometries from One Flat Sheet

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Tough hydrogels with rapid self-reinforcement

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Polyzwitterions as a Versatile Building Block of Tough Hydrogels: From Polyelectrolyte Complex Gels to Double-Network Gels

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Self-Oscillating Membranes: Chemomechanical Sheets Show Autonomous Periodic Shape Transformation

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A constitutive model for multi network elastomers pre-stretched by swelling

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Engineering Platelet‐Rich Plasma Based Dual‐Network Hydrogel as a Bioactive Wound Dressing with Potential Clinical Translational Value

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Movable-crosslinking tough hydrogels with lithium ion as sensitive and durable compressive sensor

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Mechanoresponsive self-growing hydrogels inspired by muscle training

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A physically based visco-hyperelastic constitutive model for soft materials

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Highly Stretchable and Instantly Recoverable Slide-Ring Gels Consisting of Enzymatically Synthesized Polyrotaxane with Low Host Coverage

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A general constitutive model of soft elastomers

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Ultrastiff, Thermoresponsive Nanocomposite Hydrogels Composed of Ternary Polymer–Clay–Silica Networks

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Adaptive structure of gels and microgels with sliding cross-links: enhanced softness, stretchability and permeability

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Mechanical properties of supramolecular elastomers prepared from polymer-grafted polyrotaxane

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Highly elastic binders integrating polyrotaxanes for silicon microparticle anodes in lithium ion batteries

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Unusual Fracture Behavior of Slide-Ring Gels with Movable Cross-Links

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Stretching Response of Knotted and Unknotted Polymer Chains

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Peculiar elasticity and strain hardening attributable to counteracting entropy of chain and ring in slide-ring gels

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Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

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Recent developments in polypseudorotaxanes and polyrotaxanes

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Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

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Slide-ring materials using topological supramolecular architecture

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Design and Fabrication of a High-Strength Hydrogel with Ideally Homogeneous Network Structure from Tetrahedron-like Macromonomers

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