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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...An elastic gel is known to be brittle and notch-sensitive—that is, the high stretchability and strength drop markedly when samples contain notches, or any other features that cause inhomogeneous deformation [19]....
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...As the stretch increases, the alginate network unzips progressively [23], while the polyacrylamide network remains intact, so that the hybrid gel exhibits pronounced hysteresis and little permanent deformation....
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...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....
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...When the gel is stretched, the short-chain network ruptures and dissipates energy [20]....
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...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....
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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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