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We have reported a new, multi-scale approach that improves the fatigue resistance of particle-filled rubbers, published in Nature. Our sample (right) was nearly intact after 350,000 cycles. Look at the thread from Jason, co-first author of the paper.
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Besides the science of the paper, here I would like to highlight our fatigue tester. The fatigue of soft materials is an old subject but not easy to study as it is expensive! A tensile tester is ~$100k. ~500k cycles are needed for one fatigue threshold, which takes several days.

In this paper, we built multiple fatigue testers with ~$500/ea. It is good enough for soft materials where the load is low. All parts are from either Amazon or McMaster-Carr, controlled by Arduino. This allowed us to measure the fatigue threshold as a function of two variables!

The detailed procedure is in the Method. The entire Arduino code is in the Supplementary Information. An undergraduate student can build this. One can improve it with a load cell. *There is one typo in the code: directionPin = 8 -> 9; stepPin = 9 -> 8.

The Harvard SEAS posted an article about our work. We initially hypothesized something logical but it turned out to be wrong. Actually, we wished we were wrong. Finding a pretty pebble on the shore is always thankful and joyful.

@jasongsteck @zhigangsuo @ykutsovsky Just got a chance to check out this cute video 😃. It's interesting to see a new function of the kirigami gripper as a test platform for preventing crack growth. @dpholmes

@jasongsteck @zhigangsuo @ykutsovsky Another piece of impact work

@jasongsteck @zhigangsuo @ykutsovsky Congrats, fantastic work!

@jasongsteck @zhigangsuo @ykutsovsky Congratulations!
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