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Jul 2026
Bound water as a kinetic crosslinker for bio-inspired impact-stiffening polymers
Developing high-performance impact-stiffening polymers that are broadly applicable across chemical systems remains a key challenge, as existing designs rely on meticulously engineered molecular motifs. Inspired by water’s role in biological impact resistance, we introduce a generalizable biomimetic paradigm. We transfo...
Siyu Jin, Zhaoming Zhang, Menghao Ji et al.
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