Figure 4.
Schematic of high-toughness hydrogels toughening with network topology. (a) Schematic of tough hydrogels in which entanglements greatly outnumber crosslinks, adapted from Ref. [116]. (b) Schematics of the preparation of a denatured denatured-crosslinking hydrogel and a native denatured-crosslinking hydrogel. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [119]. 2023, Springer Nature. (c) A NIPA-AAcNa-HPR-C hydrogel containing slip ring structures. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [35]. 2014, Springer Nature.
