title: Strong, Tough, Stretchable, and Self-Adhesive Hydrogels from Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins.
abstract: Strong, tough, stretchable, and self-adhesive hydrogels are designed with intrinsically unstructured proteins. The extraordinary mechanical properties exhibited by these materials are enabled by an integration of toughening mechanisms that maintain high elasticity and dissipate mechanical energy within the protein networks.
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghoorchian
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Zachary
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Scholl
authors.affiliation: Soft Active Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Shaoting
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rubinstein
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marszalek
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Ashutosh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chilkoti
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.|Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
authors.forename: Gabriel P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: López
authors.affiliation: NSF Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.|Soft Active Materials Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.|Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Xuanhe
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000269:Adhesives; D004548:Elasticity; D020100:Hydrogels / Q000737:chemistry*; D064267:Intrinsically Disordered Proteins; D011506:Proteins
chemical_list: D000269:Adhesives; D020100:Hydrogels; D064267:Intrinsically Disordered Proteins; D011506:Proteins
keywords: bioinspired materials; hydrogels; recombinant proteins; unstructured polypeptides