Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 14, Issue 15, Pages 17065-17080Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c00101
Keywords
hydrogel; beta-cyclodextrin; flexible sensor; wearable technology
Funding
- DST-INSPIRE Fellowship from DST, India [IF170018, SAIF IISc]
- DST, New Delhi
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A multiple-stimuli-responsive hydrogel with high stretchability and transparency has been synthesized in this study. It can be used to fabricate a flexible pressure sensor and a drug release carrier.
In the present work, a multiple-stimuli-responsive hydrogel has been synthesized via polymerization of acrylamide (AAm) and N-hydroxy methyl acrylamide (HMAm) on beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD). The synthesized hydrogel beta-CD-g-(pAAm/pHMAm) exhibited various striking features like ultrahigh stretchability (>6000%), flexibility, stab resistivity, self-recoverability, electroresponsiveness, pressure-responsiveness, adhesiveness, and high transparency (>90%). Besides, the hydrogel has demonstrated enhanced biocompatibility, UV resistance, and thermoresponsive shape memory behaviors. On the basis of these attractive characteristics of the hydrogel, a flexible pressure sensor for the real-time monitoring of human motion with superior biocompatibility and transparency was fabricated. Moreover, due to the nanofibrillar surface morphology of the beta-CD-g-(pAAm/pHMAm) hydrogel, the sensor based on the gel exhibited high sensitivity (0.053 kPa(-1) for 0-3.3 kPa). The flexible sensor demonstrates very fast response time (130 ms-210 ms) with adequate stability (5000 cycles). Interestingly, the sensor can rapidly sense both robust (index finger and wrist) motions as well as tiny (swallowing and phonation) physiological actions. In addition, this adhesive hydrogel patch also acts as a potential carrier for the sustained topical release of (similar to 80.8% in 48 h) the antibiotic drug gentamicin sulfate.
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