Haziot et al. Reply:

A Reply to the Comment by C. Zhou et al.

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The theory by Zhou et al. shows strong disagreement with our experiments. We observe [2] a linear and reversible behavior with highly reduced stiffness down to $8\times {10}^{-11}$ strains, 300 times smaller than their yield strain ($2.7\times {10}^{-8}$).