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The Fracture of Highly Deformable Soft Materials: A Tale of Two Length Scales

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Fabrication of Tough and Stretchable Hybrid Double-Network Elastomers Using Ionic Dissociation of Polyelectrolyte in Nonaqueous Media

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Steady-state crack growth in polymer gels: A linear poroelastic analysis

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Quantifying the impact of molecular defects on polymer network elasticity

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SANS Studies on Tetra-PEG Gel under Uniaxial Deformation

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Single-Molecule Elasticity Measurements of the Onset of Excluded Volume in Poly(Ethylene Glycol)

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