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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 9. The UPN architectures decouple mechanical properties of hydrogels:

Figure 9.

a. unimodal polymer networks such as ideal polymer networks and the polymer networks with slidable crosslinks give coupled mechanical properties; b. multimodal polymer networks such as interpenetrating polymer networks, semiinterpenetrating polymer networks and polymer networks with high-functionality crosslinks can decouple the mechanical properties.