A phase diagram of neutral polyampholyte – from solution to tough hydrogel

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A Universal Molecular Stent Method to Toughen any Hydrogels Based on Double Network Concept

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High Fracture Efficiency and Stress Concentration Phenomenon for Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogels Based on Double-Network Principle

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Structure Optimization and Mechanical Model for Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogels with High Strength and Toughness

(2012) Jian Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

(2012) Jungwook Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Characterization of internal fracture process of double network hydrogels under uniaxial elongation

(2012) Tasuku Nakajima et al.   Soft Matter

Progress Toward Robust Polymer Hydrogels

(2011) Sina Naficy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

The fracture toughness of soft tissues

(2011) David Taylor et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Lamellar Bilayers as Reversible Sacrificial Bonds To Toughen Hydrogel: Hysteresis, Self-Recovery, Fatigue Resistance, and Crack Blunting

(2011) M. Anamul Haque et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogel Films with High Mechanical Strength and Their Visible Mesoscale Fracture Structure

(2011) Jian Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

End-Linked Poly[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl Methacrylate]–Poly(methacrylic acid) Polyampholyte Conetworks: Synthesis by Sequential RAFT Polymerization and Swelling and SANS Characterization

(2011) Kyriaki S. Pafiti et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Water-Induced Brittle-Ductile Transition of Double Network Hydrogels

(2010) Hiroko Itagaki et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ionically Cross-Linked Triblock Copolymer Hydrogels with High Strength

(2010) Kevin J. Henderson et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Robust bonding and one-step facile synthesis of tough hydrogels with desirable shape by virtue of the double network structure

(2010) Junji Saito et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Why are double network hydrogels so tough?

(2010) Jian Ping Gong   Soft Matter

True Chemical Structure of Double Network Hydrogels

(2009) Tasuku Nakajima et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Direct Observation of Damage Zone around Crack Tips in Double-Network Gels

(2009) Qiu Ming Yu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2008) Takamasa Sakai et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties

(2007) Marc André Meyers et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE