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    • Fatigue Fracture of Self-Recovery Hydrogels 

      Bai, Ruobing; Yang, Jiawei; Morelle, Xavier; Yang, Canhui; Suo, Zhigang (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018-02-16)
      Hydrogels of superior mechanical behavior are under intense development for many applications. Some of these hydrogels can recover their stress-stretch curves after many loading cycles. These hydrogels are called self-recovery ...
    • Fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels 

      Bai, Ruobing; Yang, Quansan; Tang, Jingda; Morelle, Xavier P.; Vlassak, Joost J.; Suo, Zhigang (Elsevier BV, 2017)
      Tough hydrogels of many chemical compositions have been developed in recent years, but their fatigue fracture has not been studied. The lack of study hinders further development of hydrogels for applications that require ...
    • Localized Deformation in Plastic Liquids on Elastomers 

      Morelle, Xavier; Bai, Ruobing; Suo, Zhigang (ASME International, 2017)
      A plastic liquid such as toothpaste and butter deforms like an elastic solid under a small stress and like a plastic solid under a large stress. Recently, plastic liquids have been used as compliant electrodes for elastomeric ...
    • Optomechanics of Soft Materials 

      Bai, Ruobing; Suo, Zhigang (ASME International, 2015)
      Some molecules change shape upon receiving photons of certain frequencies, but here we study light-induced deformation in ordinary dielectrics with no special optical effects. All dielectrics deform in response to light ...