Materials with switchable mechanical properties are widespread in living organisms and
endow many species with traits that are essential for their survival. Many of the mechanically …

As a promising functional material, hydrogels have attracted extensive attention, especially
in flexible wearable sensor fields, but it remains a great challenge to facilely integrate …

Stimuli–responsive mechanoadaptive materials, capable of reversibly changing their
mechanical properties when exposed to an external stimulus, are the next generation of …

Viscoelasticity or rheology is important in polymer science and engineering because it plays
a crucial role in production and characterization of polymeric materials. Understanding the …

Despite the wide use of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) in various applications, our
understanding of the microscopic parameters controlling their macroscopic properties …

In this work, polymer dynamics of the weakly attractive poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)/
silica nanocomposites with different molecular weights of the matrix, interaction strength …

Polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) have been widely investigated due to their significant
performance in mechanical reinforcement, but the mechanism of mechanical reinforcement …

Engineering reversible cross-links between nanoparticles and polymer matrix is a promising
avenue to reinforce the mechanical properties of elastomers and in particular soft hydrogels …

Dynamics of the interphase region between matrix and bound polymers on nanoparticles is
important to understand the macroscopic rheological properties of nanocomposites. Here …

Polymers exhibit deviations from their bulk physical properties in the vicinity of solid
interfaces due to changes in configurations, entanglements, and relaxation dynamics at the …