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ACS MACRO LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 1409-1413Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00729
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- ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan) [15K17905]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H06050, 15K17905] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In this study, the quasi-static fracture behavior of slide-ring gels (SR gels), in which movable cross-links can slide on polymer chains, is for the first time investigated and compared to that of conventional polymer gels with fixed cross-links (FC gels). For the usual FC gels, there is a trade-off relation between toughness (fracture energy F) and stiffness (Young's modulus E): with increasing cross-linking density, the Young's modulus E increases, while fracture energy F decreases. However, SR gels show an unusual fracture behavior that contradicts this trade-off relation. The fracture energy of SR gels is independent of the Young's modulus, in other words, the cross-linking density; moreover, it rises with increasing slidable range of movable cross-links on polymer chains. A new molecular model is proposed by attributing the unusual fracture properties of SR gels to the relative sliding movement between polymer chains and cross-links. Utilizing this concept, simultaneous fulfillment of high stiffness and high toughness in polymer gels can be realized.
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