Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 349, Issue -, Pages 588-594Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.05.081
Keywords
Double network hydrogel; Physical crosslinking; Mechanical property; Self-healing
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773133, 51421061]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Teams in University of China [IRT 1026]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [2015SCU04A22]
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Suffering weak mechanical properties, hydrogels are generally limited for high load-bearing applications. Herein, chitosan and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) are employed as double networks (DN), and metal-coordination and chain entanglement are exploited as dual crosslinks to develop fully physically crosslinked DN hydrogels. In spite of the non-covalent crosslinking, the hydrogel exhibits impressive tensile properties (3.7 +/- 0.12 MPa) and toughness (1200 +/- 50% of elongation at break and 2.8 x 10(3) J m(-2) of fracture energy). In addition, good fatigue resistance and self-recovery performance are achieved for the hydrogel because of their supramolecular nature. Notably, the DN hydrogel display good self-healing property with recovered fracture stress and strain of 1.4 MPa and similar to 700%, respectively. The results indicate that the supramolecular design proposed in this work can bring more benefits for wide applications of hydrogel.
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