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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2021 Apr 12;121(8):4309–4372. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01088

Figure 10. The UPN interactions decouple the mechanical properties of hydrogels.

Figure 10.

The reversible crosslinks give an effectively high density of short chains for the high modulus, and the sparse covalent crosslinks give long chains for high stretchability and intrinsic fracture energy.