The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

Stemming from early seminal notions of molecular recognition and encapsulation, three-
dimensional, cavity-containing capsular compounds and assemblies have attracted intense …

Polycatenanes are extremely attractive topological architectures on account of their high
degrees of conformational freedom and multiple motion patterns of the mechanically …

Crosslinking in polymer networks leads to intrinsic structural inhomogeneities that result in
brittle materials. Replacing fixed covalent crosslinks with mobile ones in mechanically …

The solution-state fluxional behavior of bullvalene has fascinated physical organic and
supramolecular chemists alike. Little effort, however, has been put into investigating …

Trapped entanglements─ topological cross-links among polymer chains in a network─ are
fundamental to polymers and have been correlated with mechanical properties like …

Polymer entanglements─ topological constraints to chain motion─ are fundamental
features of polymers, whose presence is believed to improve materials properties such as …

Catenanes are a well-known class of mechanically interlocked molecules that possess
chain-like architectures and have been investigated for decades as molecular machines and …

The main-chain poly [n] catenane consists of a series of interlocked rings that resemble a
macroscopic chain-link structure. Recently, the synthesis of such intriguing polymers was …

Adhesives have been widely used to splice and repair materials to meet practical needs of
humanity for thousands of years. However, developing robust adhesives with balanced …