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Exploring a naturally tailored small molecule for stretchable, self-healing, and adhesive supramolecular polymers Open
A supramolecular polymer with integrated properties is readily obtained from a natural small molecule.
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Biomimetic Supramolecular Polymer Networks Exhibiting both Toughness and Self‐Recovery Open
Biomimetic supramolecular dual networks: By mimicking the structure/function model of titin, integration of dynamic cucurbit[8]uril mediated host-guest interactions with a trace amount of covalent cross-linking leads to hierarchical dual n…
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Ideal reversible polymer networks Open
This work introduces ideal reversible polymer networks, describes and validates experimentally a theory to relate the network mechanical behavior to the crosslink dynamics.
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Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization: From Polymer Network Synthesis to 3D Printing Open
3D printing has changed the fabrication of advanced materials as it can provide customized and on‐demand 3D networks. However, 3D printing of polymer materials with the capacity to be transformed after printing remains a great challenge fo…
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An Overview on Polymer Retention in Porous Media Open
Polymer flooding is an important enhanced oil recovery technology introduced in field projects since the late 1960s. The key to a successful polymer flood project depends upon proper estimation of polymer retention. The aims of this paper …
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Highly crosslinked, chlorine tolerant polymer network entwined graphene oxide membrane for water desalination Open
A graphene oxide (GO)–polymer nanocomposite membrane was fabricated by integrating GO nanosheets into a highly crosslinked polymer network on a porous polymer substrate for desalination.
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A Chemically Recyclable Crosslinked Polymer Network Enabled by Orthogonal Dynamic Covalent Chemistry Open
Chemical recycling of synthetic polymers offers a solution for developing sustainable plastics and materials. Here we show that two types of dynamic covalent chemistry can be orthogonalized in a solvent‐free polymer network and thus enable…
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Reinforcing interpenetrating network hydrogels with 3D printed polymer networks to engineer cartilage mimetic composites Open
Engineering constructs that mimic the complex structure, composition and biomechanics of the articular cartilage represents a promising route to joint regeneration. Such tissue engineering strategies require the development of biomaterials…
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Semibatch monomer addition as a general method to tune and enhance the mechanics of polymer networks via loop-defect control Open
Significance We demonstrate that slow monomer addition during step-growth polymer network formation changes the fraction of loop defects within the network, thus providing materials with tunable and significantly improved mechanical proper…
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Educational series: characterizing crosslinked polymer networks Open
Characterization of polymer networks presents unique challenges due to the insolubility of the materials, but this also enables characterization by new techniques that take advantage of the bulk network structure.
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Fracture of polymer networks with diverse topological defects Open
Polymer networks are pervasive in biological organisms and engineering materials. Topological defects such as cyclic loops and dangling chains are ubiquitous in polymer networks. While fracture is a dominant mechanism for mechanical failur…
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Simultaneous One‐Pot Interpenetrating Network Formation to Expand 3D Processing Capabilities Open
The incorporation of a secondary network into traditional single‐network hydrogels can enhance mechanical properties, such as toughness and loading to failure. These features are important for many applications, including as biomedical mat…
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Fracture of model end-linked networks Open
Significance Fracture of polymer networks is molecular in nature as chains must rupture for a crack to propagate. Predicting macroscopically measured fracture properties from molecular parameters a priori has remained elusive, even for wel…
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Advancing Reversible Shape Memory by Tuning the Polymer Network Architecture Open
Because of counteraction of a chemical network and a crystalline scaffold, semicrystalline polymer networks exhibit a peculiar behavior—reversible shape memory (RSM), which occurs naturally without applying any external force and particula…
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Dynamic assembly of ultrasoft colloidal networks enables cell invasion within restrictive fibrillar polymers Open
Significance Decoupling stiffness, pore size, and cell infiltration is a critical hurdle in biomaterials design. Here, by adding ultrasoft colloidal hydrogels to polymerizing fibrin, the particles are driven into a percolated three-dimensi…
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Intrinsic self-healing rubber: A review and perspective of material and reinforcement Open
Self-healing rubbers have been widely developed by introducing reversible dynamic crosslinked networks into rubber so that it can repair mechanical damage automatically without requiring any manual intervention. The major successful self-h…
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Mechanical Response of Two-Dimensional Polymer Networks: Role of Topology, Rate Dependence, and Damage Accumulation Open
The skeleton of many natural and artificial soft materials can be abstracted as networks of fibers/polymers interacting in a nonlinear fashion. Here, we present a numerical model for networks of nonlinear, elastic polymer chains with rate-…
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Double network hydrogels with controlled shape deformation: A mini review Open
Double network hydrogels (DN gels), consisting of two networks with strongly asymmetric network structures and properties, are one of most investigated high strength hydrogels. In most cases, the first network of DN gels is rigid, brittle …
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Role of Nanoparticle–Polymer Interactions on the Development of Double-Network Hydrogel Nanocomposites with High Mechanical Strength Open
Extensive experimental and theoretical research over the past several decades has pursued strategies to develop hydrogels with high mechanical strength. Our study investigated the effect of combining two approaches, addition of nanoparticl…
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Counting loops in sidechain-crosslinked polymers from elastic solids to single-chain nanoparticles Open
The vast differences in material properties accessible via crosslinking of sidechain-functionalized polymers are driven by topology.
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Light-induced assembly and disassembly of polymers with Pd<sub>n</sub>L<sub>2n</sub>-type network junctions Open
A metastable-state photoacid can be used for the light-controlled assembly and disassembly of polymer networks containing PdnL2n network junctions.
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Modelling realistic microgels in an explicit solvent Open
Thermoresponsive microgels are polymeric colloidal networks that can change their size in response to a temperature variation. This peculiar feature is driven by the nature of the solvent-polymer interactions, which triggers the so-called …
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Tough Double-Network Gels and Elastomers from the Nonprestretched First Network Open
Double-network (DN) gels and elastomers, which consist of two (or more) rubbery polymer networks with contrasting physical properties, have received significant attention as they are extremely tough soft materials. The first network of tou…
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Thermally-Induced Self-Healing Behaviors and Properties of Four Epoxy Coatings with Different Network Architectures Open
The thermally-induced self-healing behavior of polymer coatings consists of two steps, i.e., gap closure and crack repair. In addition, the polymer coatings with thermally-induced self-healing capability are expected to show satisfied prop…
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Multiply Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: Preparation, Mechanical Properties, and Applications Open
This review summarizes work done on triply, or higher, interpenetrating polymer network materials prepared in order to widen the properties of double polymer network hydrogels (DN), doubly interpenetrating polymer networks with enhanced me…
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Biomimetic double network hydrogels: Combining dynamic and static crosslinks to enable biofabrication and control cell‐matrix interactions Open
Hydrogels are promising candidates for recapitulation of the native extracellular matrix (ECM), yet recreating molecular and spatiotemporal complexity within a single network remains a challenge. Double network (DN) hydrogels are a promisi…
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Circularly polarized organic room temperature phosphorescence activated by liquid crystalline polymer networks Open
Circularly polarized organic room temperature phosphorescence (CPRTP) with g max = +0.098 was activated by the rigid environment of an in situ cross-linked liquid crystalline polymer network.
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Dual electrically and thermally responsive broadband reflectors based on polymer network stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals: the role of crosslink density Open
An adjustable broadband reflector based on a polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystal has been fabricated.
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From Chain Growth to Step Growth Polymerization of Photoreactive Poly‐ε‐Caprolactone: The Network Topology of Bioresorbable Networks as Tool in Tissue Engineering Open
Control of the network topology by selection of an appropriate cross‐linking chemistry is introduced as a new strategy to improve the elasticity and toughness of bioresorbable networks. The development of novel photocross‐linkable and bior…
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A new high‐performance blue to transmissive electrochromic material and use of silver nanowire network electrodes as substrates Open
Synthesis of a novel, high‐performance blue to transmissive switching electrochromic material is described. The polymer (P1) was prepared by both electrochemical ( P1E ) and chemical ( P1C ) means from the corresponding monomer. The electr…