Peptide‐Crosslinked, Highly Entangled Hydrogels with Excellent Mechanical Properties but Ultra‐Low Solid Content

), low friction (0.0059), and high wear resistance. These properties are comparable to or even better than the BIS-crosslinked hydrogel, although the former has much lower solid content. The excellent mechanical properties of the peptide-crosslinked gel are attributed to its highly entangled structure and also to the introduction of a novel mechanism for energy dissipation, that is, energy dissipation via breakage of intramolecular hydrogen bonds stabilizing the helical structure of the peptide.