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Soft Defect-Tolerant Material Inspired by American Lobsters

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A Transparent, Skin‐Inspired Composite Film with Outstanding Tear Resistance Based on Flat Silk Cocoon

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Discontinuous fibrous Bouligand architecture enabling formidable fracture resistance with crack orientation insensitivity

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Soft and elastic hydrogel-based microelectronics for localized low-voltage neuromodulation

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Stretchable materials of high toughness and low hysteresis

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Transparent Impact-Resistant Composite Films with Bioinspired Hierarchical Structure

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Mimicking “J-Shaped” and Anisotropic Stress–Strain Behavior of Human and Porcine Aorta by Fabric-Reinforced Elastomer Composites

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

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Programmable Hydrogel Ionic Circuits for Biologically Matched Electronic Interfaces

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Chameleon-like elastomers with molecularly encoded strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration

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Printing ferromagnetic domains for untethered fast-transforming soft materials

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Biomimetic twisted plywood structural materials

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Mimicking biological stress–strain behaviour with synthetic elastomers

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Hydraulic hydrogel actuators and robots optically and sonically camouflaged in water

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Knitting and weaving artificial muscles

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Controlled Mechanical Buckling for Origami-Inspired Construction of 3D Microstructures in Advanced Materials

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Effect of Fiber Crimp on the Elasticity of Random Fiber Networks With and Without Embedding Matrices

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Initial rigid response and softening transition of highly stretchable kirigami sheet materials

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Inverse notch sensitivity: Cracks can make nonwoven fabrics stronger

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A kirigami approach to engineering elasticity in nanocomposites through patterned defects

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Solvent-free, supersoft and superelastic bottlebrush melts and networks

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In situ visualization of Li/Ag2VP2O8 batteries revealing rate-dependent discharge mechanism

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Dynamic kirigami structures for integrated solar tracking

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Soft network composite materials with deterministic and bio-inspired designs

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On the tear resistance of skin

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Stepped Moduli in Layered Composites

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Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

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Wavy Ribbons of Carbon Nanotubes for Stretchable Conductors

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The fracture toughness of soft tissues

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Strain-Induced Molecular Reorientation and Birefringence Reversion of a Robust, Anisotropic Double-Network Hydrogel

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