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ADVANCED MATERIALS
卷 35, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209913
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hydrogels; poly(vinyl alcohol); salting out; solvent exchange; stiff and tough
An adaptable crystal-domain cross-linking design is used to overcome the trade-off between stiffness and toughness in hydrogels, allowing for the simultaneous improvement of both properties. This finding provides a practical and universal method for designing stiff and tough hydrogels and has a profound impact on various applications requiring hydrogels with combined mechanical properties.
Conventional hydrogels usually suffer from the inherent conflict between stiffness and toughness, severely hampering their applications as load-bearing materials. Herein, an adaptable crystal-domain cross-linking design is reported to overcome this inherent trade-off for hydrogels by taking full advantage of both deformation-resisting and energy-dissipating capacities of cross-linking points. Through solvent exchange to homogenize the polymer network, followed by salting out to foster crystallization, a class of sal-exogels with high number densities of uniform crystalline domains embedded in homogeneous networks is constructed. During the deformation, those adaptive crystalline domains initially survive to arrest deformation, while later gradually disentangle to efficiently dissipate energy, crucial to the realization of the desirable compatibility between stiffness and toughness. The resultant sal-exogel achieves coordinatively enhanced stiffness (52.3 +/- 2.7 MPa) and toughness (120.7 +/- 11.7 kJ m(-2)), reconciling the challenging trade-off between them. This finding provides a practical and universal route to design stiff and tough hydrogels and has a profound impact on many applications requiring hydrogels with such combined mechanical properties.
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