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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 401, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2020.126129
Keywords
MXene; Hydrogel; Redox; Stretchable; Bioelectronics
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFB0307900]
- National Natural Science, Foundation of China [31770632]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province [2015J05093]
- Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University [CXZX2017296, CXZX2017037]
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Re-stacking of 2D Ti3C2TX (MXene) nanosheets seriously limits their applications and development of effective strategies to overcome this issue remains challenging. Thus, an efficient method was proposed to rapidly fabricate (< 20 min) a MXene nanosheets-catalyzed self-assembled, poly-acrylic acid (PAA) hydrogel with excellent conductivity, stretchability (similar to 1400%), and anti-aggregation (> 60 d) properties. In the proposed strategy, insitu growth of TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) on MXene surfaces could effectively overcome the nanosheets restacking in solvents. Moreover, the reductive TiO2@MXene nanosheets not only catalyze the dissociation of the initiator generating sufficient radicals by redox reaction to initiate the ultrafast polymerization of AA monomers without heating, but also cross-link polymer chains (via chemical bonding) to produce hydrogel in a time scale of minutes instead of hours. Therefore, the MXene-catalyzed ultrafast self-assembly design effectively overcame the problem associated with the re-aggregation of nanosheets in hydrogels. More importantly, the structural, mechanical, swelling, adhesive, and conductive performances of the hydrogel could be adjusted by altering the TiO2@MXene contents. This strategy should be extended to almost all types of MXene-radical polymerized hydrogels with tunable structures and performances that have potential applications in the field of wearable bioelectronics.
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