Journal
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 33, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202211035
Keywords
hydrogels; self-adaptive materials; smart fabrics; thermal insulation; thermally responsive fibers
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Smart textiles with good mechanical adaptability are crucial in personal protection, health monitoring, and aerospace applications. This study introduces skin-core structures of thermally responsive fibers with multiple commercial fiber cores and temperature-responsive hydrogel skins, which exhibit rapid mechanical adaptability, good thermohardening, and thermal insulation.
Smart textiles with good mechanical adaptability play an important role in personal protection, health monitoring, and aerospace applications. However, most of the reported thermally responsive polymers has long response time and poor processability, comfort, and wearability. Skin-core structures of thermally responsive fibers with multiple commercial fiber cores and temperature-responsive hydrogel skins are designed and fabricated, which exhibit rapid mechanical adaptability, good thermohardening, and thermal insulation. This universal method enables tight bonding between various commercial fiber cores and hydrogel skins via specific covalently anchored networks. At room temperature, prepared fibers show softness, flexibility, and skin compatibility similar to those of ordinary fibers. As temperature rises, smart fibers become hard, rigid, and self-supporting. The modulus of hydrogel skin increases from 304% to 30883%, showing good mechanoadaptability and impact resistance owing to the synergy between hydrophobic interactions and ionic bonding. Moreover, this synergistic effect leads to an increase in heat absorption, and fibers exhibit good thermal insulation, which reduces the contact temperature of the body surface by approximate to 25 degrees C under the external temperature of 95 degrees C, effectively preventing thermal burns. Notably, the active mechanoadaptability of these smart fibers using conductive fibers as cores is demonstrated. This study provides feasibility for fabricating environmentally adaptive intelligent textiles.
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