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ACS MACRO LETTERS
卷 8, 期 6, 页码 670-675出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00258
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- Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence
- Business Finland [544/31/2015, 2489/31/2017]
- ERC-Advanced Grant (DRIVEN)
- Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
- Walter Ahlstrom Foundation
- Tekniikan edistamissaatio
Strain-stiffening is one of the characteristic properties of biological hydrogels and extracellular matrices, where the stiffness increases upon increased deformation. Whereas strain-stiffening is ubiquitous in protein-based materials, it has been less observed for polysaccharide and synthetic polymer gels. Here we show that agarose, that is, a common linear polysaccharide, forms helical fibrillar bundles upon cooling from aqueous solution. The hydrogels with these semiflexible fibrils show pronounced strain-stiffening. However, to reveal strain-stiffening, suppressing wall slippage turned as untrivial. Upon exploring different sample preparation techniques and rheological architectures, the cross-hatched parallel plate geometries and in situ gelation in the rheometer successfully prevented the slippage and resolved the strain-stiffening behavior. Combining with microscopy, we conclude that strain-stiffening is due to the semiflexible nature of the agarose fibrils and their geometrical connectivity, which is below the central-force isostatic critical connectivity. The biocompatibility and the observed strain-stiffening suggest the potential of agarose hydrogels in biomedical applications.
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