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

By Qiu Ming Yu, Yoshimi Tanaka, H. Furukawa, T. Kurokawa, J. Gong. 2009

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Medicine

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0367a960c2e9a131fab1c68ad45b153d46fc51e5

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Zhigang Suo
2. Xuanhe Zhao
3. J. Vlassak
4. Wei Hong

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2. J. Vlassak
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7. X. Morelle
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Citations in the corpus

• Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels (2012, background): “The fracture energy of the alginate-polyacrylamide hybrid gel, however, is much larger than previously reported values of tough synthetic gels (100–1000 J/m2) [14,17,20,28], a finding which we attribute to how the alginate network unzips.”
• Fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels (2017, background): “In particular, theMullins effect has been considered as the major factor to explain the softening of double network hydrogels over consecutive loading cycles [48– 54], and has been attributed to progressive damage of the polymer networks [50,55].”