In this episode of Soft Robotics Podcast, the host Marwa Eldiwiny and I discussed our recent Science paper on fatigue-resistant hydrogel and elastomer. We talked about tanglemer, a polymer in which entanglements greatly outnumber crosslinks. We also talked about the background that motivated us, including fabrics, polymer metraix composites, ceramic matrix composites, metals.
De-concentration of stress comes through for us as a unifying principle for fatigue-resistant materials.
new material?
Zhigang,
you mentioned polymer "metraix"---a new material? Roy
Re: new material?
Not sure what you are refering to. Perhaps just "polymer matrix"? I did a seminar on the subjecct. Here is the video of the seminar.
In reply to Re: new material? by Zhigang Suo
metraix is a typo
Zhigang,
metraix is a typo. I spend 30 years on polymer matrix composites research. Roy