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Understanding the energy dissipation mechanism during deformation is essential for the design and application of tough soft materials. We show that, in a class of tough and self-healing polyampholyte hydrogels, a bicontinuous network structure, consisting of a hard network and a soft network, is formed, independently of the chemical details of the hydrogels. Multiscale internal rupture processes, in which the double-network effect plays an important role, are found to be responsible for the large energy dissipation of these hydrogels.
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