Soft polymer networks have seen an explosion of recent developments motivated by new
high tech applications in the biomedical field or in engineering. We present a candid and …

Ideal for entry-level and experienced researchers working in materials science and
engineering, this unique book introduces a new subfield of materials science and …

The Mullins-type damage behaviors in double network hydrogels have attracted a broad
research interest in recent years. However, most of current works focus on characterizing …

A new type of water-retaining, slow-release fertilizer (WSF) based on double-network
hydrogels was fabricated via the ion-crosslinking of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and the …

In this study, a constitutive model is proposed to describe the necking behavior of double
network (DN) gels based on statistical micromechanics of interpenetrating polymer …

A simple method was developed to fabricate tough hydrogels from a chemically cross-linked
neutral hydrogel. Loosely cross-linked pseudo-and true-interpenetrating polymer network …

Tough elastomers and gels have garnered broad research interest due to their wide-ranging
potential applications. However, during the loading and unloading cycles, a clear stress …

Two factors play the key role in application of hydrogels as biomedical implants (for
example, for replacement of damaged intervertebral discs and repair of spinal cord injuries) …

The toughness of double-network gels is conventionally evaluated by comparison of their
hysteresis energies under uniaxial cyclic deformation. A shortcoming of this approach is that …

A highly extensible, tough, chemically crosslinked double‐network (DN) hydrogel was
synthesized from acrylamide. Three samples of this hydrogel were swelled using different …