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Self-healable, tough and highly stretchable hydrophobic association/ionic dual physically cross-linked hydrogels

Yulin Zhang, Chengxin Hu, Xu Xiang, Yong-Fu Diao, Binwei Li, Ling‐Ying Shi, Rong Ran

RSC Advances · 2017 · 56 citations · 35 references

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In this work, we describe a novel method for the production of tough and highly stretchable hydrogels with self-healing behavior, tensile strength of 150–300 kPa and stretch at break of 2400–2800%.

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