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SUBMITTER: Lin S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6357728 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Shaoting S Liu Xinyue X Liu Ji J Yuk Hyunwoo H Loh Hyun-Chae HC Parada German A GA Settens Charles C Song Jake J Masic Admir A McKinley Gareth H GH Zhao Xuanhe X
Science advances 20190125 1
The emerging applications of hydrogels in devices and machines require hydrogels to maintain robustness under cyclic mechanical loads. Whereas hydrogels have been made tough to resist fracture under a single cycle of mechanical load, these toughened gels still suffer from fatigue fracture under multiple cycles of loads. The reported fatigue threshold for synthetic hydrogels is on the order of 1 to 100 J/m<sup>2</sup>. We propose that designing anti-fatigue-fracture hydrogels requires making the ...[more]