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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - Elastic MicroPhase separation (EMPS) provides a simple route to create soft materials
    with homogeneous microstructures by leveraging the supersaturation of crosslinked
    polymer networks with liquids. At low supersaturation, network elasticity stabilizes
    a uniform mixture, but beyond a critical threshold, metastable microphase-separated
    domains emerge. While previous theories have focused on describing qualitative
    features about the size and morphology of these domains, they do not make quantitative
    predictions about EMPS phase diagrams. In this work, we extend Flory–Huggins theory
    to quantitatively capture EMPS phase diagrams by incorporating strain-stiffening
    effects. This model requires no fitting parameters and relies solely on independently
    measured solubility parameters and large-deformation mechanical responses. Our
    results confirm that strain-stiffening enables metastable microphase separation
    within the swelling equilibrium state and reveal why the microstructures can range
    from discrete droplets to bicontinuous networks. This works highlights the critical
    role of nonlinear elasticity in controlling phase-separated morphologies in polymer
    gels.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Carla
      foaf_name: Fernández-Rico, Carla
      foaf_surname: Fernández-Rico
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=492def71-6250-11f0-b278-d41dbd241b62
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Robert W.
      foaf_name: Style, Robert W.
      foaf_surname: Style
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Stefanie
      foaf_name: Heyden, Stefanie
      foaf_surname: Heyden
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Shichen
      foaf_name: Wang, Shichen
      foaf_surname: Wang
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Peter D.
      foaf_name: Olmsted, Peter D.
      foaf_surname: Olmsted
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Eric R.
      foaf_name: Dufresne, Eric R.
      foaf_surname: Dufresne
  bibo_doi: 10.1039/d5sm00594a
  bibo_issue: '2'
  bibo_volume: 22
  dct_date: 2026^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/1744-683X
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/1744-6848
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry@
  dct_title: Thermodynamics of microphase separation in a swollen, strain-stiffening
    polymer network@
  fabio_hasPubmedId: '41400267'
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