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Bioinspired ultratough hydrogel with fast recovery, self-healing, injectability...
Azevedo, Sara; Costa, Ana M. S.; Andersen, Amanda; Choi, Insung S.; Birkedal, Henrik; Mano, João F.Inspired by the mussel byssus adhesiveness, a highly hydrated polymeric structure is designed to combine, for the first time, a set of interesting features for load-bearing purposes. These characteristics include: i) a compressive strength and stiffness in the MPa range, ii) toughness and the ability to recover it upon successive cyclic loading, iii) the ability to quickly self-heal upon rupture, iv) the possib...
Date: 2017
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Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro