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Besides, the existing jamming mechanisms generally encounter deformation-induced softening, restricting their applications in cases where large deformation and high stiffness are both needed. Herein, a multifunctional granular chain assemblage is proposed, where particles are formed into chains with threads. The chain jamming can be classified into two types. Granular chain jamming (GCJ) utilizes typical particles such as spherical particles, which can achieve both high stiffness and great adaptability while keeping jamming components relatively lightweight, while by using cubic particles, a peculiar deformation-induced stiffening mechanism is found, which is termed as stretch-enhanced particle jamming (SPJ). 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