作者：Zhongkai Wang, Feng Jiang, Yaqiong Zhang, Zhigang Wang*, and Chuanbing Tang*
关键字：high resilient, elastomers, elastic protein mimic
论文来源：期刊
具体来源：ACS Macro Letters
发表时间：2016年

Natural resilin possesses outstanding mechanical properties, such as high strain, low stiffness and high resilience, which are difficult to be reproduced in synthetic materials. We designed high resilient elastomers (HREs) with a network structure to mimic natural resilin on the basis of two natural abundant polymers, stiff cellulose and flexible polyisoprene. With plasticization via mineral oil and mechanical cyclic tensile deformation processing, HREs show ultra-high resilience, high strain and relative strength that closely mimic natural resilin. Moreover, the mechanical properties of HREs can be finely tuned by adjusting the cellulose content, providing the opportunity to synthesize high resilient elastomers that mimic different elastic proteins, such as elastin.