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Koch SM, Goldhahn C, Müller FJ, Yan W, Pilz-Allen C, Bidan CM, Ciabattoni B, Stricker L, Fratzl P, Keplinger T, Burgert I. Anisotropic wood-hydrogel composites: Extending mechanical properties of wood towards soft materials' applications. Mater Today Bio 2023; 22:100772. [PMID: 37674781 PMCID: PMC10477686 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtbio.2023.100772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Delignified wood (DW) offers a versatile platform for the manufacturing of composites, with material properties ranging from stiff to soft and flexible by preserving the preferential fiber directionality of natural wood through a structure-retaining production process. This study presents a facile method for fabricating anisotropic and mechanically tunable DW-hydrogel composites. These composites were produced by infiltrating delignified spruce wood with an aqueous gelatin solution followed by chemical crosslinking. The mechanical properties could be modulated across a broad strength and stiffness range (1.2-18.3 MPa and 170-1455 MPa, respectively) by varying the crosslinking time. The diffusion-led crosslinking further allowed to manufacture mechanically graded structures. The resulting uniaxial, tubular structure of the anisotropic DW-hydrogel composite enabled the alignment of murine fibroblasts in vitro, which could be utilized in future studies on potential applications in tissue engineering.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sophie Marie Koch
- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- WoodTec Group, Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Soft Materials Group, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- WoodTec Group, Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- WoodTec Group, Cellulose & Wood Materials, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland
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Gusenbauer C, Peter K, Cabane E, Konnerth J. Local force titration of wood surfaces by chemical force microscopy. CELLULOSE (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2021; 29:763-776. [PMID: 35153393 PMCID: PMC8810465 DOI: 10.1007/s10570-021-04342-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Chemical force microcopy, a variation of atomic force microscopy, opened the door to visualize chemical nano-properties of various materials in their natural state. The key function of this method is given by translating adhesion forces between a functionalized tip and the sample to chemical surface behavior. In force titration, these adhesion forces are studied in different pH buffers, which allows estimating the pK a value of the analyzed surface. Herein, we report the use of this method to study natural and chemically treated wood surfaces, which are of interest in sustainable material design. First, we show varying adhesion phenomena of OH- and COOH-functionalized tips on native spruce wood cells. Then, we demonstrate how peak force tapping with chemically functionalized tips can be used to estimate the pK a value of gold substrates (pK a ≈ 5.2) and different wood cell wall layers with high spatial resolution. Additionally, the swelling behavior of wood samples is analyzed in varying pH buffers. With the applied method, chemical surface properties of complex natural substrates can be analyzed.
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- Claudia Gusenbauer
- Institute of Wood Technology and Renewable Materials, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Straße 24, 3430 Tulln, Austria
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- Institute of Wood Technology and Renewable Materials, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Straße 24, 3430 Tulln, Austria
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- Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zürich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Wood Technology and Renewable Materials, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Konrad-Lorenz-Straße 24, 3430 Tulln, Austria
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Zhang C, Keten S, Derome D, Carmeliet J. Hydrogen bonds dominated frictional stick-slip of cellulose nanocrystals. Carbohydr Polym 2021; 258:117682. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.117682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Revised: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Monitoring the surface aging of wood through its pits using atomic force microscopy with functionalized tips. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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