Ke, Hua http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-6337
Yang, Liu-Pan
Xie, Mo
Chen, Zhao
Yao, Huan
Jiang, Wei http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7683-5811
Article History
Received: 7 March 2018
Accepted: 25 February 2019
First Online: 1 April 2019
Competing interests
: W.J., H.K. and L.-P.Y. are listed as the inventors on a Chinese patent application from Southern University of Science and Technology (patent application no. CN201710569674.7). The patent, currently under substantive examination, comprises the following aspects of this study: binding of the PEGs with the endo-functionalized molecular tubes, the preparation of the hydrogels and the shear-thickening measurements.