Notch insensitive and self-healing PNIPAm–PAM–clay nanocomposite hydrogels

Soft Matter ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 3506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Wang ◽  
Shudian Zheng ◽  
Weixiang Sun ◽  
Xinxing Liu ◽  
Shiyu Fu ◽  
...  
Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pejman Heidarian ◽  
Abbas Z. Kouzani ◽  
Akif Kaynak ◽  
Ali Zolfagharian ◽  
Hossein Yousefi

It is an ongoing challenge to fabricate an electroconductive and tough hydrogel with autonomous self-healing and self-recovery (SELF) for wearable strain sensors. Current electroconductive hydrogels often show a trade-off between static crosslinks for mechanical strength and dynamic crosslinks for SELF properties. In this work, a facile procedure was developed to synthesize a dynamic electroconductive hydrogel with excellent SELF and mechanical properties from starch/polyacrylic acid (St/PAA) by simply loading ferric ions (Fe3+) and tannic acid-coated chitin nanofibers (TA-ChNFs) into the hydrogel network. Based on our findings, the highest toughness was observed for the 1 wt.% TA-ChNF-reinforced hydrogel (1.43 MJ/m3), which is 10.5-fold higher than the unreinforced counterpart. Moreover, the 1 wt.% TA-ChNF-reinforced hydrogel showed the highest resistance against crack propagation and a 96.5% healing efficiency after 40 min. Therefore, it was chosen as the optimized hydrogel to pursue the remaining experiments. Due to its unique SELF performance, network stability, superior mechanical, and self-adhesiveness properties, this hydrogel demonstrates potential for applications in self-wearable strain sensors.


Cellulose ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 2541-2553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qichao Fan ◽  
Chuanjie Jiang ◽  
Wenxiang Wang ◽  
Liangjiu Bai ◽  
Hou Chen ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 38126-38135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dechao Fan ◽  
Guanglin Wang ◽  
Anyao Ma ◽  
Wenxiang Wang ◽  
Hou Chen ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 137 (28) ◽  
pp. 48853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozge Akca ◽  
Berkant Yetiskin ◽  
Oguz Okay

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. 1253-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazutoshi Haraguchi ◽  
Kazuhisa Uyama ◽  
Hisashi Tanimoto

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