Ultra-responsive soft matter from strain-stiffening hydrogels

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jaspers, Maarten ^a   Dennison, Matthew ^b   Mabesoone, Mathijs F J ^a   MacKintosh, Frederick C ^b   Rowan, Alan E ^a   Kouwer, Paul H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; POLYMER;

ELASTICITY; GEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FLOW KINETICS; HYDROGEL; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RIGIDITY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84922600811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6808     Document Type: Article

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