Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels
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...Alternatively, hydrogels formed throughhybridizationwith nanomaterials (39, 48), via crystallite cross-linking (49), or bymixingmultiple components (38, 41, 50), may possess substantially improved mechanical properties (51)....
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...Many ionic conductors, such as hydrogels (20) and gels swollen with ionic liquids (21), take a solid form, and are stretchable and transparent....
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...Hydrogels are used as scaffolds for tissue engineering [1], vehicles for drug delivery [2], actuators for optics and fluidics [3], and model extracellular matrices for biological studies [4]....
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...Each alginate chain contains a large number of G blocks, many of which form ionic crosslinks with G blocks on other chains when enough Ca++ ions are present [1]....
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...Hydrogels are used as scaffolds for tissue engineering [1], vehicles for drug delivery [2], actuators for optics and fluidics [3], and model extracellular matrices for biological studies [4]....
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...For example, fracture energy of ~1000 J/m2 is achieved with a double-network gel, in which two networks are separately crosslinked by covalent bonds, one network having short chains, and the other having long chains [11]....
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...Intense efforts are devoted to synthesizing hydrogels of enhanced mechanical properties [11–18]; certain synthetic gels have reached fracture energy of 100–1000 J/m2 [11,14,17]....
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