Journal
ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 598-606Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.1c01530
Keywords
cellulose nanocrystals; hydrogel; actuator; stimuli-responsive materials; nanocomposite film; biopolymer
Funding
- Transformative Technologies Initiative from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
- British Columbia Ministry of Forest, Lands, Natural Resource Operations, and Rural Development (BC-FLNRORD)
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The study found that electroactive biopolymer hydrogels can be used as soft actuators for biomedicine and robotics, behaving as anionic polymer actuators. Incorporating CNCs into non-electroresponsive polyacrylamide can enhance the bending response and lifespan of the hydrogels.
Electroactive biopolymer hydrogels have potential applications as soft actuators for biomedicine and robotics. Both free-standing films of biosourced cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and nanocomposite hydrogels comprising CNCs and hydrophilic polymers behave as anionic polymer actuators in response to an electric field. CNCs were incorporated into non-electroresponsive polyacrylamide to yield nanocomposite materials with greater field-induced bending responses and longer lifetimes than purely CNC films. The actuation rate of CNC-polyacrylamide nanocomposite hydrogels in ionic solution can be tuned by the amount of sulfatebearing CNCs incorporated into the hydrogel and the density of sulfate groups on CNC surfaces to produce vast nanocomposite actuators (9 degrees s(-1) bending speed).
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