The fundamental material response of a viscoelastic material when impacted by a ballistic
projectile has important implication for the defense, law enforcement, and medical …

Soft polymeric gels have utility in a broad range of medical, industrial, and military
applications, which has led to an extensive research investment over the past several …

Polymer gels are composed of a chemically or physically cross-linked polymer that is highly
swollen with solvent. Two important limitations for the practical application of polymer gels …

To model the mechanical response of visco-hyperelastic materials, it is quite common to
generalize small deformations responses to finite deformations, which is the main objective …

Dynamic density functional theory calculations were performed for thermoplastic elastomer
gels composed of an ABA triblock copolymer immersed in a B‐attractive solvent. The triblock …

This work reports the design and synthesis of side-chain amino acid containing cross-linked
polymer gels with high mechanical strength. The Boc-leucine methacryloyloxyethyl ester …

Thermoplastic elastomer gels (TPEGs) are physically associating gels composed of ABA
triblock copolymers that are highly swollen with a B selective solvent. A unique feature of …

A key factor that limits the practical implementation of polymer gels is low gel toughness.
Here, we present coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of the effects of solvent …

Computational modeling was utilized to design complex polymer networks and gels which
display enhanced and tunable mechanical properties. Our approach focuses on overcoming …

A comprehensive hyperelastic model that precisely forecasts the mechanical characteristics
of materials with rubber-like qualities is presented. This model relies on the well-established …