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Zhigang Suo
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 538
Citations - 66286
Zhigang Suo is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Self-healing hydrogels & Dielectric. The author has an hindex of 124, co-authored 510 publications receiving 56487 citations. Previous affiliations of Zhigang Suo include Brown University & Hansung University.
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Electromechanical instability in semicrystalline polymers
Xuanhe Zhao,Zhigang Suo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the critical conditions for the necking instability and the pull-in instability of a semicrystalline polymer, and showed that a tensile force can markedly reduce the critical voltage.
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Osmotic collapse of a void in an elastomer: breathing, buckling and creasing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the collapse of a void in an elastomer caused by osmosis, where the void is filled with liquid water, while the elastomers is surrounded by unsaturated air.
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Plastic ratcheting induced cracks in thin film structures
M. Huang,Zhigang Suo,Qing Ma +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic study of a failure mechanism in thin film structures caused by cyclic temperatures, where the authors introduce an analogy between ratcheting and viscous flow.
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Fracture Toughness and Fatigue Threshold of Tough Hydrogels
TL;DR: In this paper, a polymer network of strong bonds is used to achieve high fracture toughness on the basis of one physical principle. But, as a crack advances in such a hydrogel, the strength of the polymer network weakens.
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Evolving crack patterns in thin films with the extended finite element method
TL;DR: In this paper, an extended finite element method (XFEM) is proposed to evolve multiple cracks in a brittle thin film with a relatively coarse mesh and without remeshing during evolution.