Preface: Mechanical characterization of soft materials
Abstract
Acta Mechanica Sinica (2014) 30(1):1–1 DOI 10.1007/s10409-014-0026-9 PREFACE Determining the mechanical properties of soft materials ilar, but the long-term modulus of the PDMS decreased with (e.g., biological soft tissues, polymeric gels, and soft elas- the decrease of crosslink density. In addition, their results tomers) across multiple length scales represents an activity showed that crosslink density had significantly effects on sur- of increasing importance in...