Rapid self-healing and triple stimuli responsiveness of a supramolecular polymer gel based on boron–catechol interactions in a novel water-soluble mussel-inspired copolymer

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Vatankhah-Varnoosfaderani ◽  
Saud Hashmi ◽  
Amin GhavamiNejad ◽  
Florian J. Stadler
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 3312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuzhou Yan ◽  
Donghua Xu ◽  
Jianzhuang Chen ◽  
Mingming Zhang ◽  
Bingjie Hu ◽  
...  

Polymer ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (26) ◽  
pp. 6929-6935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Zeng ◽  
Ying Han ◽  
Zhi-Chao Yan ◽  
Chen-Yang Liu ◽  
Chuan-Feng Chen

2013 ◽  
Vol 214 (14) ◽  
pp. 1596-1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Li ◽  
Hai-Yan Lu ◽  
Yun Shen ◽  
Chuan-Feng Chen

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 2707-2715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Li ◽  
Binghua Zhou ◽  
Quanqian Lyu ◽  
Lizhen Jia ◽  
Haiying Tan ◽  
...  

Photonic elastomers with angle-independent structural colors, self-healing, and recycling properties are prepared by incorporating isotropically arranged SiO2 nanoparticles into a water-soluble ureidopyrimidinone (UPy) cross-linked poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polymer matrix.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (16) ◽  
pp. 1424-1429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiayi Zhan ◽  
Mingming Zhang ◽  
Mi Zhou ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
Dong Chen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aranee Pleng Teepakakorn ◽  
Makoto Ogawa

Water-induced self-healing materials were prepared by the hybridization of a water-soluble polymer, poly(vinyl alcohol), with a smectite clay by mixing in an aqueous media and subsequent casting. Without using chemical...


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 2948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner E.G. Müller ◽  
Emad Tolba ◽  
Shunfeng Wang ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Meik Neufurth ◽  
...  

A new biomimetic strategy to im prove the self-healing properties of Portland cement is presented that is based on the application of the biogenic inorganic polymer polyphosphate (polyP), which is used as a cement admixture. The data show that synthetic linear polyp, with an average chain length of 40, as well as natural long-chain polyP isolated from soil bacteria, has the ability to support self-healing of this construction material. Furthermore, polyP, used as a water-soluble Na-salt, is subject to Na+/Ca2+ exchange by the Ca2+ from the cement, resulting in the formation of a water-rich coacervate when added to the cement surface, especially to the surface of bacteria-containing cement/concrete samples. The addition of polyP in low concentrations (<1% on weight basis for the solids) not only accelerated the hardening of cement/concrete but also the healing of microcracks present in the material. The results suggest that long-chain polyP is a promising additive that increases the self-healing capacity of cement by mimicking a bacteria-mediated natural mechanism.


Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Palomino-Durand ◽  
Marco Lopez ◽  
Frédéric Cazaux ◽  
Bernard Martel ◽  
Nicolas Blanchemain ◽  
...  

Injectable pre-formed physical hydrogels provide many advantages for biomedical applications. Polyelectrolyte complexes (PEC) formed between cationic chitosan (CHT) and anionic polymers of cyclodextrin (PCD) render a hydrogel of great interest. Given the difference between water-soluble (PCDs) and water-insoluble PCD (PCDi) in the extension of polymerization, the present study aims to explore their impact on the formation and properties of CHT/PCD hydrogel obtained from the variable ratios of PCDi and PCDs in the formulation. Hydrogels CHT/PCDi/PCDs at weight ratios of 3:0:3, 3:1.5:1.5, and 3:3:0 were elaborated in a double–syringe system. The chemical composition, microstructure, viscoelastic properties, injectability, and structural integrity of the hydrogels were investigated. The cytotoxicity of the hydrogel was also evaluated by indirect contact with pre-osteoblast cells. Despite having similar shear–thinning and self-healing behaviors, the three hydrogels showed a marked difference in their rheological characteristics, injectability, structural stability, etc., depending on their PCDi and PCDs contents. Among the three, all the best above-mentioned properties, in addition to a high cytocompatibility, were found in the hydrogel 3:1.5:1.5. For the first time, we gained a deeper understanding of the role of the PCDi/PCDs in the injectable pre-formed hydrogels (CHT/PCDi/PCDs), which could be further fine-tuned to enhance their performance in biomedical applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (44) ◽  
pp. 27204-27210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Hu ◽  
Zipeng Guo ◽  
Andrew Ragonese ◽  
Taishan Zhu ◽  
Saurabh Khuje ◽  
...  

Molecular ferroelectrics combine electromechanical coupling and electric polarizabilities, offering immense promise in stimuli-dependent metamaterials. Despite such promise, current physical realizations of mechanical metamaterials remain hindered by the lack of rapid-prototyping ferroelectric metamaterial structures. Here, we present a continuous rapid printing strategy for the volumetric deposition of water-soluble molecular ferroelectric metamaterials with precise spatial control in virtually any three-dimensional (3D) geometry by means of an electric-field–assisted additive manufacturing. We demonstrate a scaffold-supported ferroelectric crystalline lattice that enables self-healing and a reprogrammable stiffness for dynamic tuning of mechanical metamaterials with a long lifetime and sustainability. A molecular ferroelectric architecture with resonant inclusions then exhibits adaptive mitigation of incident vibroacoustic dynamic loads via an electrically tunable subwavelength-frequency band gap. The findings shown here pave the way for the versatile additive manufacturing of molecular ferroelectric metamaterials.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (47) ◽  
pp. 6489-6494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Qing Fan ◽  
Qing Huang ◽  
You-Ming Zhang ◽  
Jiao Wang ◽  
Xiao-Wen Guan ◽  
...  

Two novel approaches for highly sensitive detection and efficient adsorption of aldehydes by forming a water-soluble supramolecular polymer and an AIEE hydrogel.


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