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SUBMITTER: Li X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7149489 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Xueyu X Cui Kunpeng K Sun Tao Lin TL Meng Lingpu L Yu Chengtao C Li Liangbin L Creton Costantino C Kurokawa Takayuki T Gong Jian Ping JP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200324 14
Load-bearing biological tissues, such as muscles, are highly fatigue-resistant, but how the exquisite hierarchical structures of biological tissues contribute to their excellent fatigue resistance is not well understood. In this work, we study antifatigue properties of soft materials with hierarchical structures using polyampholyte hydrogels (PA gels) as a simple model system. PA gels are tough and self-healing, consisting of reversible ionic bonds at the 1-nm scale, a cross-linked polymer netwo ...[more]