Movie S1.

When a homogeneous hard PDMS with a precut crack is stretched to 1.12 times its original height, the crack runs through the entire sample. The ratio between the base and curing agent is A:B = 10:1. The height of the undeformed sample between the two gripers is 20 mm.

Stretchable materials of high toughness and low hysteresis

Zhengjin Wang, Chunping Xiang, Xi Yao, Paul Le Floch, Julien Mendez, and Zhigang Suo

PNAS. 2019. 116:5967-5972 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821420116