Self‐Healing in Tough Graphene Oxide Composite Hydrogels
2013; Wiley; Volume: 34; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/marc.201300242
ISSN1521-3927
AutoresJiaqi Liu, Guoshan Song, Changcheng He, Huiliang Wang,
Tópico(s)Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
ResumoAbstract Polymer hydrogels that are capable of spontaneously healing injury are being developed at a rapid pace because of their great potential in biomedical applications. Here, the self‐healing property of tough graphene nanocomposite hydrogels fabricated by using graphene peroxide as polyfunctional initiating and cross‐linking centers is reported. The hydrogels show excellent self‐healing ability at ambient temperature or even lower temperatures for a short time and very high recovery degrees (up to 88% tensile strength) can be achieved at a prolonged healing time. The healed gels exhibit very high tensile strengths (up to 0.35 MPa) and extremely high elongations (up to 4900%). The strong interactions between the polyacrylamide chains and the graphene oxide sheets are essential to the mechanical strengths of the healed gels. magnified image
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