As swollen polymer networks in water, hydrogels are usually brittle. However, hydrogels with
high toughness play critical roles in many plant and animal tissues as well as in diverse …

Microgels/nanogels are crosslinked polymeric particles, which can be considered as
hydrogels if they are composed of water soluble/swellable polymer chains. They possess …

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 …

Large hydrophobic monomers stearyl methacrylate (C18) and dococyl acrylate (C22) could
be copolymerized with the hydrophilic monomer acrylamide in a micellar solution of sodium …

Hydrogels, as 3D networks containing huge amount of water, display similarity to soft
tissues, and thus they are of wide interest in tissue engineering. Hydrogels, due to …

We report the preparation and structural and mechanical characterization of a tough
supramolecular hydrogel, based exclusively on hydrophobic association. The system …

Hydrogels and organogels are semi-solid systems, in which a liquid phase is immobilized by
a three-dimensional network composed of self-assembled, intertwined polymer/gelator …

Polyacrylamide (PAAm) hydrogels possessing a very large extensibility at break have been
prepared via micellar crosslinking copolymerization of acrylamide monomer and N, N …

Dynamics of poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) hydrogels having chemical and physical transient
cross-links simultaneously (dual cross-link PVA gels) were studied by microrheology based …

The viscoelastic and mechanical behaviors of physically cross-linked copolymer hydrogels
synthesized from N, N-dimethylacrylamide (DMA) and 2-(N-ethylperfluorooctane …