Mechanochemistry provides a unique approach to investigate macroscopic deformation,
failure and healing of polymer materials. The development of mechanophores–molecular …

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is one of the most promising elastomers due its remarkable
proprieties such as good thermal stability, biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, flexibility …

Over the past 20 years, the field of polymer mechanochemistry has amassed a toolbox of
mechanophores that translate mechanical energy into a variety of functional responses …

Nonvolatile ionogels have recently emerged as promising soft electrolyte materials for use in
flexible electronics. However, it remains challenging to fabricate highly robust and stable …

Current synthetic elastomers suffer from the well‐known trade‐off between toughness and
stiffness. By a combination of multiscale experiments and atomistic simulations, a …

The fracture of highly deformable soft materials is of great practical importance in a wide
range of technological applications, emerging in fields such as soft robotics, stretchable …

Elastomers are highly valued soft materials finding many applications in the engineering
and biomedical fields for their ability to stretch reversibly to large deformations. Yet their …

A typical description of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) can be surprisingly simple,
systems that consist of two crosslinked polymer networks that are physically entangled but …

The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

Quantitative characterization of the energy dissipation zone around a crack tip is the focal
point in the fracture mechanics of soft materials. In this report, we present a …