Fiber-reinforced tough hydrogels

Extreme Mechanics Letters

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-96

  Illeperuma, Widusha R K ^a   Sun, Jeong Yun ^b   Suo, Zhigang ^a   Vlassak, Joost J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fiber pullout; Hydrogel composite; Tough hydrogel

Indexed keywords

REINFORCED PLASTICS; REINFORCEMENT; STEEL FIBERS;

BIOMETRIC SENSORS; FIBER PULL OUT; FIBER REINFORCED; HYDROGEL COMPOSITES; POLYACRYLAMIDE HYDROGELS; RANDOM NETWORK; STRONG FIBERS; TENDON REPAIRS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84924032967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23524316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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