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Modulus adaptive lubricating prototype inspired by instant muscle hardening mechanism of catfish skin

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Injectable bottlebrush hydrogels with tissue-mimetic mechanical properties

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Hydrogen‐Bonding Affords Sustainable Plastics with Ultrahigh Robustness and Water‐Assisted Arbitrarily Shape Engineering

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Cold-induced shape memory hydrogels for strong and programmable artificial muscles

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Design of Hydrogels with Thermoresponsive Crosslinked Domain Structures via the Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Process and Their Thermoresponsive Toughening in Air

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Large-area display textiles integrated with functional systems

(2021) Xiang Shi et al.   NATURE

Bio-inspired mechanically adaptive materials through vibration-induced crosslinking

(2021) Zhao Wang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Physical networks from entropy-driven non-covalent interactions

(2021) Anthony C. Yu et al.   Nature Communications

A universal method to easily design tough and stretchable hydrogels

(2021) Chisa Norioka et al.   NPG Asia Materials

Selective Stiffening in Soft Actuators by Triggered Phase Transition of Hydrogel‐Filled Elastomers

(2021) Francesco Visentin et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Hydrophilicity‐Hydrophobicity Transformation, Thermoresponsive Morphomechanics, and Crack Multifurcation Revealed by AIEgens in Mechanically Strong Hydrogels

(2021) Yubing Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Materials with Electroprogrammable Stiffness

(2021) David J. Levine et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Stimuli-Responsive Toughening of Hydrogels

(2021) Xinxing Lin et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Scalable production of high-performing woven lithium-ion fibre batteries

(2021) Jiqing He et al.   NATURE

Structured fabrics with tunable mechanical properties

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Hierarchical-morphology metafabric for scalable passive daytime radiative cooling

(2021) Shaoning Zeng et al.   SCIENCE

Skin-like mechanoresponsive self-healing ionic elastomer from supramolecular zwitterionic network

(2021) Wei Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Ultrafast self-gelling powder mediates robust wet adhesion to promote healing of gastrointestinal perforations

(2021) Xin Peng et al.   Science Advances

A Stiffness‐Switchable, Biomimetic Smart Material Enabled by Supramolecular Reconfiguration

(2021) Dawei Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Thermo‐Responsive Jamming of Nanoparticle Dense Suspensions towards Macroscopic Liquid–Solid Switchable Materials

(2021) Mingqian Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Liquid or solid? a biologically inspired concentrated suspension for protective coating

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The stiffness of living tissues and its implications for tissue engineering

(2020) Carlos F. Guimarães et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Complex multiphase organohydrogels with programmable mechanics toward adaptive soft-matter machines

(2020) Shuyun Zhuo et al.   Science Advances

Stiffness Self‐Tuned Shape Memory Hydrogels for Embolization of Aneurysms

(2020) Bo Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Distinct Cation–Anion Interactions in the UCST and LCST Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Complex Aqueous Solutions

(2020) Zhangxin Ye et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Muscle-Mimetic Synergistic Covalent and Supramolecular Polymers: Phototriggered Formation Leads to Mechanical Performance Boost

(2020) Zhaoming Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mimicking Active Biopolymer Networks with a Synthetic Hydrogel

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Mechanoresponsive self-growing hydrogels inspired by muscle training

(2019) Takahiro Matsuda et al.   SCIENCE

Moisture Sensitive Smart Yarns and Textiles from Self-Balanced Silk Fiber Muscles

(2019) Tianjiao Jia et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Instant Thermal Switching from Soft Hydrogel to Rigid Plastics Inspired by Thermophile Proteins

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Materials tactile logic via innervated soft thermochromic elastomers

(2019) Yang Jin et al.   Nature Communications

A Critical Approach to Polymer Dynamics in Supramolecular Polymers

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Microscopic structure of the polymer-induced liquid precursor for calcium carbonate

(2018) Yifei Xu et al.   Nature Communications

Biomimetic Reversible Heat-Stiffening Polymer Nanocomposites

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Thermoresponsive Toughening with Crack Bifurcation in Phase-Separated Hydrogels under Isochoric Conditions

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Hydrogels from Amorphous Calcium Carbonate and Polyacrylic Acid: Bio-Inspired Materials for “Mineral Plastics”

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Responsive biomimetic networks from polyisocyanopeptide hydrogels

(2013) Paul H. J. Kouwer et al.   NATURE

Nanoparticle solutions as adhesives for gels and biological tissues

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Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis

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