PDMS elastomercyclic stressfatigueFatigue-resistant elastomers have been prepared using various metal oxides as fillers in poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)-based elastomers. The judicious choice of inorganic fillers produced elastomers that were stable under cyclic testing at elevated temperatures. These ...
in MEG2-Li elastomers, both intramolecular and intermolecular interactions are broken upon stretching. Despite of their different rupture modes, the chemical nature of the interactions is the same.
Polyurethane (PU) elastomers are among the most used rubberlike materials due to their combined merits, including high abrasion resistance, excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and good processing performance. A PU elastomer exhibits pronounced hysteresis, leading to a high toughness on the ...
Most load-carrying materials—plastics, metals, elastomers, hydrogels—have potent natural or engineered tougheners, and fall much below the diagonal: these materials are tough but fatigue-prone. For these tough materials, the threshold is typically lower than the toughness by one to two orders of...
ELASTOMERSYOUNG'S modulusSOFT roboticsENERGY dissipationLigaments are flexible and stiff tissues around joints to support body movements, showing superior toughness and fatigue-resistance. Such a combination of mechanical properties is rarely seen in synthetic elastomers because stretchability, stiffness, ...
Self‐healing materials can prolong device life, but their relatively weak mechanical strength limits their applications. Introducing tunable metal‐ligand interactions into self‐healing systems can improve their mechanical strength. However, applying this concept to solid elastomers is a challenge. To ...
Self-healing materials can prolong device life, but their relatively weak mechanical strength limits their applications. Introducing tunable metal-ligand interactions into self-healing systems can improve their mechanical strength. However, applying this concept to solid elastomers is a challenge. To ...
self-healingSelf‐healing materials can prolong device life, but their relatively weak mechanical strength limits their applications. Introducing tunable metal‐ligand interactions into self‐healing systems can improve their mechanical strength. However, applying this concept to solid elastomers is a ...