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Eur J Neurosci
February 2024
Departments of Psychology, Physiology, & Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Adv Mater
November 2022
Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Wear and Protection of Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
To address the challenge of realizing multifunctional polymers simultaneously exhibiting high strength and high toughness through molecular engineering, ultrastrong and supertough shape-memory poly(urea-urethane) (PUU) is fabricated by regulating: i) the reversible cross-links composed of rigid units and multiple hydrogen bonds, and ii) the molecular weight of soft segments. The optimal material exhibits an unparalleled strength of 84.2 MPa at a large elongation at a break of 925.
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May 2021
Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials of Ministry of Education and College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
Nature embraces an intriguing strategy to create high-performance biomaterials, such as spider silk which presents an unparalleled combination of stiffness, tensile strength, and toughness via hierarchical structures. However, to fabricate synthetic polymers with such excellent properties remains a challenging task. Inspired by the integration of multiblock backbone and densely H-bonding assemblies in spider silk as well as the delicate iron-catecholate complexes in mussel byssus, we proposed a novel molecular design with multifunctional block modules to obtain polymer materials that exhibit excellent mechanical property, self-healing ability, and reprocessability.
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