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LETTERS PUBLISHED ONLINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2015 | DOI: 10.1038/NMAT4508 Solvent-free, supersoft and superelastic bottlebrush melts and networks 1 2 1 William F. M. Daniel , Joanna Burdyńska , Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnoosfaderani , 2 1† 1 3 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski , Jarosław Paturej , Michael Rubinstein , Andrey V. Dobrynin and Sergei S. Sheiko1* Polymer gels are the only viable class of synthetic materials with a Young’s modulus below 100 kPa conforming to biological applications1–3 , yet those gel properties require a solvent fraction4–7 . The presence of a solvent can lead to phase separation, evaporation and leakage on deformation, dimin- ishing gel elasticity and eliciting inflammatory responses in any surrounding tissues. Here, we report solvent-free, supersoft and superelastic polymer melts and networks pre- pared from bottlebrush macromolecules. The brush-like archi- tecture expands the diameter of the polymer chains, diluting their entanglements without markedly increasing stiness. This adjustable interplay between chain diameter and sti- ness makes it possible to tailor the network’s elastic modulus and extensibility without the complications associated with a swollen gel. The b