“Impact of Hierarchy Structure on Mechanical Adaptation in Self-Healing Hydrogels: A Study of Mesoscale Hard/Soft-Phase Networks and Memory Dynamics”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38117876

This study investigates how the hierarchy structure in self-healing hydrogels affects their mechanical adaptation under cyclic stretching, finding that mesoscale hard/soft-phase networks play a crucial role in long-term memory and asymmetric dynamics of compliance changes.