Soft Materials

Damping chitin hydrogels by harnessing insect-cuticle-inspired hierarchical structures
Cell Reports Physical Science 2023
Insect-cuticle-inspired chitin hydrogels combine hierarchical laminar structures with adjustable self-assembly to improve damping by more than 100-fold while maintaining flexibility, toughness, and biodegradability.
Fenghou Yuan†, Xin-Xing Zhang†, Kai Wu, Zhenghangcheng Li, Yiliang Lin, Xiangyu Liang*, Qing Yang*, Tian Liu*
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Damping chitin hydrogels by harnessing insect-cuticle-inspired hierarchical structures