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Strong tough hydrogels via the synergy of freeze-casting and salting out

Strong tough hydrogels via the synergy of freeze-casting and salting out

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Strong tough hydrogels via the synergy of freeze-casting and salting out

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Strong tough hydrogels via the synergy of freeze-casting and salting out

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2021-02, Vol.590 (7847), p.594-599

Language

English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

Natural load-bearing materials such as tendons have a high water content of about 70 per cent but are still strong and tough, even when used for over one million cycles per year, owing to the hierarchical assembly of anisotropic structures across multiple length scales
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. Synthetic hydrogels have been created using methods such as electro-sp...

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Strong tough hydrogels via the synergy of freeze-casting and salting out

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TN_cdi_osti_scitechconnect_1774154

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_osti_scitechconnect_1774154

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/s41586-021-03212-z

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