Soft materials are materials with a low shear modulus relative to their bulk modulus and
where elastic restoring forces are mainly of entropic origin. A sparse population of strong …

In virtue of extracellular features, hydrogels have been used in various areas such as tissue
repair, artificial skins, and biological electronics, etc. Intact contact of tough hydrogels to …

Soft polymer networks have seen an explosion of recent developments motivated by new
high tech applications in the biomedical field or in engineering. We present a candid and …

Forming robust associative interactions has been an effective strategy for the design of
tough hydrogels. However, the role of associative interactions in the dynamics of hydrogels …

Recently, polyampolytes have been discovered to form hydrogels that possess high
toughness, full resilience, and self-healing between two cut surfaces. The self-healing of this …

Recently, charge balanced polyampholytes (PA) have been found to form tough and self-
healing hydrogels. This class of physical hydrogels have a very high equilibrated polymer …

Oppositely charged homopolyelectrolytes were found to form strong, tough, and self-healing
polyion-complex (PIC) hydrogels, similar to polyampholytes (PA) which have opposite …

The rheological and adhesive properties of bis‐urea functionalized low‐molecular‐weight
polyisobutylenes (PIBUT) are investigated. The polymers, which can interact through …

Waterborne polyurethane− acrylic hybrid nanoparticles for application as pressure-sensitive
adhesives (PSAs) were prepared by one-step miniemulsion polymerization. The addition of …

Hydrogen bonds stabilized by hydrophobic side groups have been widely applied to realize
high toughness of hydrogels. Herein, we studied the effect of the content of the hydrophobic …