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Crosslinker mobility governs fracture behavior of catch-bonded networks
José Ruiz-Franco, Justin Tauber, Jasper van der Gucht
While most chemical bonds weaken under the action of mechanical force (called slip bond behavior), nature has developed bonds that do the opposite: their lifetime increases as forc…
Sharing the load: stress redistribution governs fracture of polymer double networks
Justin Tauber, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Simone Dussi +1
The stress response of polymer double networks depends not only on the properties of the constituent networks, but also on the interactions arising between them. Here we demonstrat…
The role of temperature in the rigidity-controlled fracture of elastic networks
Justin Tauber, Aimée R. Kok, Jasper van der Gucht +1
We study the influence of thermal fluctuations on the fracture of elastic networks, via simulations of the uniaxial extension of central-force spring networks with varying rigidity…
Microscopic insights into the failure of elastic double networks
Justin Tauber, Simone Dussi, Jasper van der Gucht
The toughness of a polymer material can increase significantly if two networks are combined into one material. This toughening effect is a consequence of a transition from a brittl…
Disorder protects collagen networks from fracture
Federica Burla, Simone Dussi, Cristina Martinez-Torres +3
Collagen forms the structural scaffold of connective tissues in all mammals. Tissues are remarkably resistant against mechanical deformations because collagen molecules hierarchica…
Athermal Fracture of Elastic Networks: How Rigidity Challenges the Unavoidable Size-Induced Brittleness
Simone Dussi, Justin Tauber, Jasper van der Gucht
By performing extensive simulations with unprecedentedly large system sizes, we unveil how rigidity influences the fracture of disordered materials. We observe the largest damage i…
Stress management in composite biopolymer networks
Federica Burla, Justin Tauber, Simone Dussi +2
Living tissues show an extraordinary adaptiveness to strain, which is crucial for their proper biological functioning. The physical origin of this mechanical behaviour has been wid…
Anomalous dynamics of interstitial dopants in soft crystals
Justin Tauber, Ruben Higler, Joris Sprakel
The dynamics of interstitial dopants governs the properties of a wide variety of doped crystalline materials. To describe the hopping dynamics of such interstitial impurities, clas…