Issue 31, 2012
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Soft Matter

Structure-mechanical property relationship of tough hydrogels

Mitsuhiro Shibayama*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
E-mail: sibayama@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Abstract

Recent developments of tough hydrogels have changed the concept of hydrogels. These gels have an extraordinarily high modulus, high tenacity, and high deformability. In this review, it is demonstrated that structural analyses with small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) have elucidated the origin of the toughness and the mechanisms of deformation of tough hydrogels. Particularly, we focus on Tetra-PEG gels because of their simple and uniform architecture, i.e., unimodal network free from trapped entanglements and with negligible network defects, and investigate the structure-mechanical property relationship.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2SM25325A
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
13 Feb 2012
Accepted
30 Mar 2012
First published
30 Apr 2012

Soft Matter, 2012,8, 8030-8038

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M. Shibayama, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 8030 DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25325A

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