Tough and tunable adhesion of hydrogels: experiments and models

As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels are major constituents of animal and plant bodies and have diverse engineering applications. While natural hydrogels can robustly adhere to other biological materials, such as bonding of tendons and cartilage on bones and adhesive plaques of muss...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Teng, Yuk, Hyunwoo, Lin, Shaoting, Parada Hernandez, German Alberto, Zhao, Xuanhe
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soft Active Materials Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer-Verlag 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110619
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