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MACROMOLECULES
卷 45, 期 23, 页码 9445-9451出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma301933x
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [124225006]
Double-network hydrogels (DN gels) have aroused considerable interest because of their excellent mechanical strength and toughness, low sliding friction, good biocompatibility, as well as wide tunability in components. By revisiting DN gels, we provide an ingenious way to fabricate a kind of strong and tough microgel-reinforced hydrogels (MR gels), that densely cross-linked polyelectrolyte microgels of poly(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic sodium) (PNaAMPS) (replacing the densely crosslinked PNaAMPS macro-network for conventional DN gels) are incorporated into sparsely cross-linked neutral polyacrylamide (PAAm) matrix. The structure of MR gels can be considered as a two-phase composite, where the disperse phase is the rigid DN microgels, and the continuous phase is the soft PAAm matrix. Similar to DN gels, MR gels show the irreversible energy dissipation in the hysteresis measurement, demonstrating the permanent fracture of the brittle PNaAMPS phase. Thus, the discontinuous brittle phase also serves as sacrificial bonds. Through quantitative comparison of the hysteresis curves with DN gels and monitoring the morphology change of the embedded microgels in MR gels during the real-time stretching process, we conclude that the DN microgels in MR gels show four times higher in fracture efficiency of the sacrificial bonds than bulk DN gels at the same strain, as a result of the stress concentration around the microgels.
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