Designing Soft Polymer Networks for Optimum Mechanical Properties
报告介绍 In many applications the entropic elasticity displayed by high molecular weight polymers is very useful, providing the building blocks of soft solids such as self-adhesive materials, hydrogels or rubbers. While classical applications of covalently crosslinked rubbers are well-known to polymer scientists, the mechanics of imperfect networks containing covalent bonds but also supramolecular interactio...