Soft matter
Thermodynamics of microphase separation in a swollen, strain-stiffening polymer network.
Carla Fernández-Rico, Robert W Style, Stefanie Heyden, Shichen Wang, Peter D Olmsted, Eric R Dufresne
Published: 202610.1039/d5sm00594a
Abstract
Elastic MicroPhase separation (EMPS) provides a simple route to create soft materials with homogeneous microstructures by leveraging the supersaturation of crosslinked polymer networks with liquids. At low supersaturation, network elasticity stabiliz…
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