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Experimental characterization and thermoviscoelastic modeling of strain and stress recoveries of an amorphous polymer network

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Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

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Predicting thermal shape memory of crosslinked polymer networks from linear viscoelasticity

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(2011) Leonid Ionov   Soft Matter

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