Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41631356›Full record

ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2026

Rewriting Polymer Fate via Chemomechanical Coupling.

Jiahe Huang, Haohui Zhang, Jiehao Chen, Xuelin Sui, Febby Krisnadi, Dongjing He, Huajian Ji, Will R Gutekunst, Michael D Dickey, Yuhang Hu

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Jiahe HuangSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Haohui ZhangGeorge W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Jiehao ChenGeorge W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Xuelin SuiSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Febby KrisnadiDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Dongjing HeGeorge W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Huajian JiSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Will R GutekunstSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Michael D DickeyDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Yuhang HuSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2274-4903

Funding

Office of Naval Research N00014-23-1-2754Office of Naval Research Award No.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How can synthetic polymers be endowed with the continuous, life-like ability to grow, degrow, heal, and alter their chemical and physical properties after fabrication? This study addresses this question by coupling theory and experiment to create an open-system "living" polymer platform that integrates mass transport, reversible polymerization, chain exchange, and evolving elasticity into a fully chemomechanically coupled network. Controlled transport, reaction, and stresses enable continuous growth and degrowth with microscale control enabled by light-activated catalysts. Their chemical composition can be reprogrammed on demand, tuning modulus by up to two orders of magnitude to either stiffen or soften the material. These capabilities enable self-growable electronics, transformative soft robots, and on-site damage-regenerating devices, establishing a foundation for sustainable, endlessly reprogrammable polymers.

Indexed as

chemomechanicsdynamic polymersgrowable soft electronicstransformable soft robots

Identifiers

PMID41631356
PMCPMC13113212

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.