A review on mechanochemistry: approaching advanced energy materials with greener force

X Liu, Y Li, L Zeng, X Li, N Chen, S Bai, H He… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mechanochemistry with solvent‐free and environmentally friendly characteristics is one of
the most promising alternatives to traditional liquid‐phase‐based reactions, demonstrating …

Mechanical Regulation of Polymer Gels

C Xu, Y Chen, S Zhao, D Li, X Tang, H Zhang… - Chemical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

Highly compressible glass-like supramolecular polymer networks

Z Huang, X Chen, SJK O'Neill, G Wu, DJ Whitaker… - Nature materials, 2022‏ - nature.com
Supramolecular polymer networks are non-covalently crosslinked soft materials that exhibit
unique mechanical features such as self-healing, high toughness and stretchability …

Multileveled hierarchical hydrogel with continuous biophysical and biochemical gradients for enhanced repair of full‐thickness osteochondral defect

L Zhang, W Dai, C Gao, W Wei, R Huang… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The repair of hierarchical osteochondral defect requires sophisticated gradient
reestablishment; however, few strategies for continuous gradient casting consider the …

Molecular engineering of a colorless, extremely tough, superiorly self-recoverable, and healable poly (urethane–urea) elastomer for impact-resistant applications

D Wang, ZF Wang, SY Ren, JH Xu, C Wang, P Hu… - Materials …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Polyurethane or polyurea elastomers with superb mechanical strength and toughness, good
self-recoverability and healable characteristics are of key significance for practical …

Mechanically interlocked vitrimers

J Zhao, Z Zhang, L Cheng, R Bai, D Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Mechanically interlocked networks (MINs) have emerged as an encouraging platform for the
development of mechanically robust yet adaptive materials. However, the difficulty in …

Mechanically triggered on-demand degradation of polymers synthesized by radical polymerizations

P Liu, S Jimaja, S Immel, C Thomas, M Mayer… - Nature Chemistry, 2024‏ - nature.com
Polymers that degrade on demand have the potential to facilitate chemical recycling, reduce
environmental pollution and are useful in implant immolation, drug delivery or as adhesives …

Quadruple H‐Bonding and polyrotaxanes dual cross‐linking supramolecular elastomer for high toughness and self‐healing conductors

Q **, R Du, H Tang, Y Zhao, W Peng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tough and self‐healable substrates can enable stretchable electronics long service life.
However, for substrates, it still remains a challenge to achieve both high toughness and …

3D bioprinting of heterogeneous constructs providing tissue‐specific microenvironment based on host–guest modulated dynamic hydrogel bioink for osteochondral …

W Dai, L Zhang, Y Yu, W Yan, F Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D bioprinting is a promising strategy to develop heterogeneous constructs that
mimic osteochondral tissue. However, conventional bioprinted hydrogels suffer from …

2D polymer nanosheets for membrane separation

F Wang, Z Zhang, I Shakir, C Yu, Y Xu - Advanced Science, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of single‐layer graphene in 2004, the family of 2D inorganic nanosheets
is considered as ideal membrane materials due to their ultrathin atomic thickness and …