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Tear-resistant stretchy gels

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Incorporating additives that contain hydrogen-bonding nanochannels creates nanoconfined polymer gels that are highly stretchable, elastic and insensitive to notch propagation.

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Fig. 1: Highly elastic and notch-propagation-insensitive gels.

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Wang, M., Dickey, M.D. Tear-resistant stretchy gels. Nat. Mater. 23, 29–30 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01764-1

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