Su, X;
Mahalingam, S;
Edirisinghe, M;
Chen, B;
(2017)
Highly Stretchable and Highly Resilient Polymer-Clay Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Low Hysteresis.
Applied Materials & Interfaces
, 9
(27)
pp. 22223-22234.
10.1021/acsami.7b05261.
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Abstract
Highly stretchable and highly resilient polymer-clay nanocomposite hydrogels were synthesized by in situ polymerization of acrylamide in the presence of pristine montmorillonite (MMT) or chitosan-treated MMT nanoplatelets at an elevated temperature. Both nanocomposite hydrogels can be stretched to a strain of no less than 1290%. The treatment of clay with chitosan improves the tensile strength, elongation at break and energy at break of the nanocomposite hydrogel by 237%, 102% and 389%, respectively, due to the strong chitosan-MMT electrostatic interaction and the grafting of polyacrylamide onto chitosan chains. Both hydrogels display excellent resilience with low hysteresis; with a maximum tensile strain of 50% ultralow hysteresis is found, while with a maximum strain of 500% both hydrogels fully recover their original state in just 1 minute. The superb resilience of the nanocomposite hydrogels is attributed to the strong interactions within the hydrogels brought by chain branching, multiple hydrogen bonding, covalent bonding and/or electrostatic force. The hydrogels can be fabricated into different shapes and forms, including microfibers spun using pressurized gyration, which may find a variety of potential applications in particular in healthcare.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Highly Stretchable and Highly Resilient Polymer-Clay Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Low Hysteresis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsami.7b05261 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b05261 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | nanocomposite hydrogel, montmorillonite, structure, mechanical properties, elasticity, hysteresis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046460 |
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