Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

By Etienne Ducrot, Yulan Chen, M. Bulters, R. Sijbesma, C. Creton. Science, 2014

982 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Medicine, Polymers and Plastics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3901bc704a98e94ec28e056271395f1cf4f254e4

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Zhigang Suo
2. Xuanhe Zhao
3. Tongqing Lu
4. L. Anand
5. Shaoting Lin
6. Jingda Tang
7. Zhengjing Wang
8. Chao Chen

In Molecular Medicine

1. Zhigang Suo
2. L. Anand
3. Jingda Tang
4. Xuanhe Zhao
5. Shaoting Lin
6. Yunwei Mao
7. Zhengjing Wang
8. Chao Chen

In Polymers and Plastics

1. Xuanhe Zhao
2. Shaoting Lin
3. Yunwei Mao
4. L. Anand
5. Zhigang Suo

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• A large deformation viscoelastic model for double-network hydrogels (2017, background): “, 2012, 2013; Gong, 2014; Ducort et al., 2014; Zhao, 2014; Zhang et al., 2015). The DN hydrogels synthesized by Sun et al. (2012) and Zhang et al. (2015) consist of a covalently-crosslinked polyacrylamide (PAAm) network with long chains, and an ionically-crosslinked alginate network with short chain”
• Fatigue of double-network hydrogels (2017, background): “This basic principle of fracture mechanics has long been established for metals [63,64], elastomers [65,66], transformation-toughened ceramics [67], ceramic-matrix composites [68], and elastomer-toughened plastics [69].”