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An accessible instrument for measuring soft material mechanical properties

An accessible instrument for measuring soft material mechanical properties Unikewicz, BM; Pincot, AM; Cohen, T Soft material research has seen significant growth in recent years, with emerging applications in robotics, electronics, and healthcare diagnostics where understanding the material mechanical response is crucial for precision design. Traditional methods for measuring nonlinear mechanical properties of soft materials require specially sized samples that are extracted from their natural e