Molecular design of stretchable polymer semiconductors: current progress and future directions

Y Zheng, S Zhang, JBH Tok, Z Bao - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stretchable polymer semiconductors have advanced rapidly in the past decade as materials
required to realize conformable and soft skin-like electronics become available. Through …

Reinforcement of elastomers

G Heinrich, M Klüppel, TA Vilgis - Current opinion in solid state and …, 2002 - Elsevier
The review describes recent research about reinforcement in elastomers where the main
intention is to gain insight into the relationship between disordered filler structure on different …

A molecular design approach towards elastic and multifunctional polymer electronics

Y Zheng, Z Yu, S Zhang, X Kong, W Michaels… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Next-generation wearable electronics require enhanced mechanical robustness and device
complexity. Besides previously reported softness and stretchability, desired merits for …

Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor thin films with multi-modal energy dissipation and high relative stretchability

HC Wu, S Nikzad, C Zhu, H Yan, Y Li, W Niu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Stretchable polymer semiconductors (PSCs) have seen great advancements alongside the
development of soft electronics. But it remains a challenge to simultaneously achieve high …

A micro-macro approach to rubber-like materials—part I: the non-affine micro-sphere model of rubber elasticity

C Miehe, S Göktepe, F Lulei - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2004 - Elsevier
The contribution presents a new micro-mechanically based network model for the
description of the elastic response of rubbery polymers at large strains and considers details …

Thermostability, tunability, and tenacity of RNA as rubbery anionic polymeric materials in nanotechnology and nanomedicine—specific cancer targeting with …

DW Binzel, X Li, N Burns, E Khan, WJ Lee… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA nanotechnology is the bottom-up self-assembly of nanometer-scale architectures,
resembling LEGOs, composed mainly of RNA. The ideal building material should be (1) …

The role of disorder in filler reinforcement of elastomers on various length scales

M Klüppel - Filler-reinforced elastomers scanning force microscopy, 2003 - Springer
The chapter considers the disordered nature of filler networks on different length scales and
relates it to the specific reinforcing properties of active fillers in elastomer composites. On …

[LIVRE][B] Reinforcement of polymer nano-composites: theory, experiments and applications

TA Vilgis, G Heinrich, M Klüppel - 2009 - books.google.com
Reinforced rubber allows the production of passenger car tires with improved rolling
resistance and wet grip. This book provides in-depth coverage of the physics behind …

An extended tube-model for rubber elasticity: statistical-mechanical theory and finite element implementation

M Kaliske, G Heinrich - Rubber Chemistry and Technology, 1999 - meridian.allenpress.com
A novel model of rubber elasticity—the extended tube-model—is introduced. The model
considers the topological constraints as well as the limited chain extensibility of network …

A nonaffine network model for elastomers undergoing finite deformations

JD Davidson, NC Goulbourne - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, we construct a new physics-based model of rubber elasticity to capture the
strain softening, strain hardening, and deformation-state dependent response of rubber …