This readme file was generated on [2023-05-10] by [Shu Wang] GENERAL INFORMATION Title of Dataset: Mechanical analysis (MSA&DMA) Author Information Name: Shu Wang ORCID:0000-0001-7638-327X Institution: Duke University Address: 2241 French Family Science Center, 124 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708 Email: sw357@duke.edu, shuw0357@gmail.com Principal Investigator Information Name: Stephen L. Craig ORCID:0000-0002-8810-0369 Institution: Duke University Address: 3221 French Family Science Center, 124 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708 Email: stephen.craig@duke.edu Author/Alternate Contact Information Name: ORCID: Institution: Address: Email: Date of data collection: 2021-12-01 to 2023-03-31 Geographic location of data collection: Durham, NC, USA Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: This work was supported by the NSF Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks (MONET), CHE-2116298. SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) DATA & FILE OVERVIEW File List: [E1 and E2 with N_p=350, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=2000, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=1400, M-C=100-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=1400, M-C=200-1]; [E3 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1]; [E5 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1]; [Ethyl acrylate elastomer made with C1 and C2]; [Gel made with C1 and C2]; [Cyclic loading test of E1 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1 (hysterisis)] These files include the mechanical analysis of all the polymer network synthesized in this manuscript, which consist of tensile tests, pure shear tearing tests, and cyclic loading tests. "N_p" in the file name stands for the length of the primary chain in the networks, while "M-C" stands for the monomer to crosslinker molar ratio used to prepare the networks. In each folder, the data are summarized and analysized in the opju. files, while the tearing energy calculation is summarized in both opju. file and the xlsx. file with "_T_calculation" in the file name. Unless the file name state the network tested, in all data in opju. files, blue stands for E1 or "network made with C1", red stands for E2 or "network made with C2", light blue stands for E3, green stands for E5. The txt. files and "_Note.xlsx" files are the raw data obtained from the instrument and the "note" used to record the dimensions of the sample tested, respectively. The "_T_calculation.xlsx" files are the spreadsheet used to help with tearing energy calculation. Usually, the first column stands for the number notched sample, second column stands for the critical strain at which the crack propagates, 3-5 columns (sometimes 3-4 columns, depends on how many unnotched samples were tested) stand for the strain energy density onbtained by intergrating the stress-strain curves of unnotched samples to the corresponding critical strain. The sixth column stands for the initial height of the notched sample. The seventh column stands for the fracture energy obtained from each notched sample, and the average and the standard deviation of the fracture energy. Other cells are used to assist the calculation. METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Uniaxial tensile tests and tearing energy measurements were performed on a TA Instruments RSA III Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (force resolution: 0.0001 N, displacement resolution: 1 μm) at Duke University’s Shared Material Instrument Facility (SMIF). Methods for processing the data: The engineering stress vs. engineering strain curves of samples are collected and plotted for tensile tests and cyclic loading test. Young's modulus of the cyclic loading tests were obatined by linear fitting the initial 5~10% of the stress-strain curves. Tearing energy was calculated using the strain energy density (obtained by integrating the un-notched stress-strain curve to the strain at which the crack of the notched samples began to propagate) multipled by the undeformed height of the samples. The average strain energy density for each notched sample is obtained from stress-strain curves of multiple unnotched samples, and multiply this average to the height of each notched sample to obtain the tearing energy of each notched samples. The average tearing energy for all notched samples is obtained by averaging the tearing energies of multiple notched samples. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: Origin 2018, Excel Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: N/A Environmental/experimental conditions: Room temperature Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: N/A People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Shu Wang, Yixin Hu DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [E1 and E2 with N_p=350, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=350, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=2000, M-C=50-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=1400, M-C=100-1]; [E1 and E2 with N_p=1400, M-C=200-1]; [E3 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1]; [E5 with N_p=1400, M-C=50-1]; [Ethyl acrylate elastomer made with C1 and C2]; [Gel made with C1 and C2] Number of variables: 7 Number of cases/rows: Depend on samples Variable List: Stress (Pa), strain (%), fraction strain (%), strain energy (J/m^3 or J/m^3*100), undeformed sample height of notched samples (mm), tearing/fracture energy (J/m^2), Young's modulus (Pa or kPa).