It remains a huge challenge to create advanced polymeric materials combining high strength, great toughness, and biodegradability so far. Despite enhanced strength and stiffness, biomimetic materials and polymer nanocomposites suffer notably reduced extensibility and toughness when compared to polymer bulk. Silk displays superior strength and toughness via hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) assembly, while cuticles of mussels gain high hardness and toughness via metal complexation cross-linking. Here, we propose a H-bonds cross-linking strategy that can simultaneously strikingly enhance strength, modulus, toughness, and hardness relative to polymer bulk. The H-bond cross-linked poly(vinyl alcohol) exhibits high yield strength (∼140 MPa), reduced mod...
Polymer composite yarns containing a high loading of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) have bee...
Multiple hydrogen bonding motifs are promising tools for polymer functionalization to obtain adaptab...
A biomimetic (titin protein molecular structure) strategy is reported for preparing transparent and ...
It remains a huge challenge to create advanced polymeric materials combining high strength, great to...
Despite the high strength and stiffness of polymer nanocomposites, they usually display lower deform...
| openaire: EC/FP7/291364/EU//MIMEFUNBiological structural materials offer fascinating models how to...
Lightweight polymeric materials are highly attractive platforms for many potential industrial applic...
Spider silk-inspired hydrogen-bond (H-bond) cross-linking has recently been shown to enable polymers...
The combination of high strength, great toughness, and high heat resistance for polymeric materials ...
Biological structural materials offer fascinating models how to synergistically increase the solid-s...
The combination of high strength, great toughness, and high heat resistance for polymeric materials ...
Supramolecular materials are widely recognized among the most promising candidates for future genera...
Supramolecular materials are widely recognized among the most promising candidates for future genera...
Current synthetic elastomers suffer from the well-known trade-off between toughness and stiffness. B...
Three-dimensional (3D) network polymers are an important family of materials. For many applications ...
Polymer composite yarns containing a high loading of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) have bee...
Multiple hydrogen bonding motifs are promising tools for polymer functionalization to obtain adaptab...
A biomimetic (titin protein molecular structure) strategy is reported for preparing transparent and ...
It remains a huge challenge to create advanced polymeric materials combining high strength, great to...
Despite the high strength and stiffness of polymer nanocomposites, they usually display lower deform...
| openaire: EC/FP7/291364/EU//MIMEFUNBiological structural materials offer fascinating models how to...
Lightweight polymeric materials are highly attractive platforms for many potential industrial applic...
Spider silk-inspired hydrogen-bond (H-bond) cross-linking has recently been shown to enable polymers...
The combination of high strength, great toughness, and high heat resistance for polymeric materials ...
Biological structural materials offer fascinating models how to synergistically increase the solid-s...
The combination of high strength, great toughness, and high heat resistance for polymeric materials ...
Supramolecular materials are widely recognized among the most promising candidates for future genera...
Supramolecular materials are widely recognized among the most promising candidates for future genera...
Current synthetic elastomers suffer from the well-known trade-off between toughness and stiffness. B...
Three-dimensional (3D) network polymers are an important family of materials. For many applications ...
Polymer composite yarns containing a high loading of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) have bee...
Multiple hydrogen bonding motifs are promising tools for polymer functionalization to obtain adaptab...
A biomimetic (titin protein molecular structure) strategy is reported for preparing transparent and ...