3D-Printable Elastomers for Real-Time Autonomous Self-Healing in Soft Devices

JG Beckett, CJ Thrasher, J Michonski… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photocurable self-healing elastomers are promising candidates for producing complex soft
devices that can mend damage. However, the practicality of these materials is limited by …

A universal strategy for decoupling stiffness and extensibility of polymer networks

B Huang, S Nian, LH Cai - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Since the invention of polymer networks such as cross-linked natural rubber in the 19th
century, it has been a dogma that stiffer networks are less stretchable. We report a universal …