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Cao J, Wu B, Yuan P, Liu Y, Hu C. Progress of Research on Conductive Hydrogels in Flexible Wearable Sensors. Gels 2024; 10:144. [PMID: 38391474 PMCID: PMC10887588 DOI: 10.3390/gels10020144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Revised: 02/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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Conductive hydrogels, characterized by their excellent conductivity and flexibility, have attracted widespread attention and research in the field of flexible wearable sensors. This paper reviews the application progress, related challenges, and future prospects of conductive hydrogels in flexible wearable sensors. Initially, the basic properties and classifications of conductive hydrogels are introduced. Subsequently, this paper discusses in detail the specific applications of conductive hydrogels in different sensor applications, such as motion detection, medical diagnostics, electronic skin, and human-computer interactions. Finally, the application prospects and challenges are summarized. Overall, the exceptional performance and multifunctionality of conductive hydrogels make them one of the most important materials for future wearable technologies. However, further research and innovation are needed to overcome the challenges faced and to realize the wider application of conductive hydrogels in flexible sensors.
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Affiliation(s)
- Juan Cao
- School of Fashion and Design Art, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu 610106, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Xin Y, Gao W, Zeng G, Chen S, Shi J, Wang W, Ma K, Qu B, Fu J, He X. Multifunctional organohydrogel via the synergy of dialdehyde starch and glycerol for motion monitoring and sign language recognition. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 258:129068. [PMID: 38158069 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.129068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Conductive hydrogel which belongs to a type of soft materials has recently become promising candidate for flexible electronics application. However, it remains difficult for conductive hydrogel-based strain sensors to achieve the organic unity of large stretchability, high conductivity, self-healing, anti-freezing, anti-drying and transparency. Herein, a multifunctional conductive organohydrogel with all of the above superiorities is prepared by crosslinking polyacrylamide (PAM) with dialdehyde starch (DAS) in glycerol-water binary solvent. Attributing to the synergy of abundant hydrogen bonding and Schiff base interactions caused by introducing glycerol and dialdehyde starch, respectively, the organohydrogel achieved balanced mechanical and electrical properties. Besides, the addition of glycerol promoted the water-locking effects, making the organohydrogel retain the superior mechanical properties and conductivity even at extreme conditions. The resultant organohydrogel strain sensor exhibits desirable sensing performance with high sensitivity (GF = 6.07) over a wide strain range (0-697 %), enabling the accurate monitoring of subtle body motions even at -30 °C. On the basis, a hand gesture monitor system based on the organohydrogel sensors arrays is constructed using machine learning method, achieving a considerable sign language recognition rate of 100 %, and thus providing convenience for communications between the hearing or speaking-impaired and general person.
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- Yue Xin
- School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Information Engineering, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, 2199 Lishui Road, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, PR China.
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- School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China
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- Hospital of Stomatology, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, 56 Lingyuanxi Road, Guangzhou 510055, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Textile Materials and Engineering, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 135 Xingang Road West, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, PR China.
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- School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, 22 Dongcheng Village, Jiangmen 529020, Guangdong, PR China.
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Altin-Yavuzarslan G, Sadaba N, Brooks SM, Alper HS, Nelson A. Engineered Living Material Bioreactors with Tunable Mechanical Properties using Vat Photopolymerization. Small 2023:e2306564. [PMID: 38105580 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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3D-printed engineered living materials (ELM) are promising bioproduction platforms for agriculture, biotechnology, sustainable energy, and green technology applications. However, the design of these platforms faces several challenges, such as the processability of these materials into complex form factors and control over their mechanical properties. Herein, ELM are presented as 3D-printed bioreactors with arbitrary shape geometries and tunable mechanical properties (moduli and toughness). Poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) is used as the precursor to create polymer networks that encapsulate the microorganisms during the vat photopolymerization process. A major limitation of PEGDA networks is their propensity to swell and fracture when submerged in water. The authors overcame this issue by adding glycerol to the resin formulation to 3D print mechanically tough ELM hydrogels. While polymer concentration affects the modulus and reduces bioproduction, ELM bioreactors still maintain their metabolic activity regardless of polymer concentration. These ELM bioreactors have the potential to be used in different applications for sustainable architecture, food production, and biomedical devices that require different mechanical properties from soft to stiff.
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- Gokce Altin-Yavuzarslan
- Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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Wang Y, Li P, Cao S, Liu Y, Gao C. Nanoarchitectonics composite hydrogels with high toughness, mechanical strength, and self-healing capability for electrical actuators with programmable shape memory properties. Nanoscale 2023; 15:18667-18677. [PMID: 37921452 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr03578f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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Hydrogel materials show promise in various fields, including flexible electronic devices, biological tissue engineering and wound dressing. Nevertheless, the inadequate mechanical properties, recovery performance, and self-healing speed still constrain the development of intelligent hydrogel materials. To tackle these challenges, we designed a composite hydrogel with high mechanical strength, rapid self-recovery and efficient self-healing ability based on multiple synergistic effects. With the synergistic effect of hydrogen bonds, metal coordination bonds and electrostatic interaction, the synthesized hydrogel could reach a maximum tensile strength of 6.2 MPa and a toughness of 50 MJ m-3. The interaction between the weak polyelectrolyte polyethyleneimine and polyacrylic acid aided in improving the elasticity of the hydrogel, thereby endowing it with prompt self-recovery attributes. The multiple reversible effects also endowed the hydrogel with excellent self-healing ability, and the fractured hydrogel could achieve 95% self-healing within 4 h at room temperature. By the addition of glycerol, the hydrogel could also cope with a variety of extreme environments in terms of moisture retention (12 h, maintaining 80% of its water content) and freeze protection (-36.8 °C) properties. In addition, the composite hydrogels applied in the field of shape memory possessed programmable and reversible shape transformation properties. The polymer chains were entangled at high temperatures to achieve shape fixation, and shape memory was eliminated at low temperatures, which allowed the hydrogels to be reprogrammed and achieve multiple shape transitions. In addition, we also assemble composite hydrogels as actuators and robotic arms for intelligent applications.
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- Yanqing Wang
- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China.
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China.
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China.
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China.
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- College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China.
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Qin Z, Zhao G, Zhang Y, Gu Z, Tang Y, Aladejana JT, Ren J, Jiang Y, Guo Z, Peng X, Zhang X, Xu BB, Chen T. A Simple and Effective Physical Ball-Milling Strategy to Prepare Super-Tough and Stretchable PVA@MXene@PPy Hydrogel for Flexible Capacitive Electronics. Small 2023; 19:e2303038. [PMID: 37475524 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202303038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 07/01/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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Biomimetic flexible electronics for E-skin have received increasing attention, due to their ability to sense various movements. However, the development of smart skin-mimic material remains a challenge. Here, a simple and effective approach is reported to fabricate super-tough, stretchable, and self-healing conductive hydrogel consisting of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), Ti3 C2 Tx MXene nanosheets, and polypyrrole (PPy) (PMP hydrogel). The MXene nanosheets and Fe3+ serve as multifunctional cross-linkers and effective stress transfer centers, to facilitate a considerable high conductivity, super toughness, and ultra-high stretchability (elongation up to 4300%) for the PMP hydrogel with. The hydrogels also exhibit rapid self-healing and repeatable self-adhesive capacity because of the presence of dynamic borate ester bond. The flexible capacitive strain sensor made by PMP hydrogel shows a relatively broad range of strain sensing (up to 400%), with a self-healing feature. The sensor can precisely monitor various human physiological signals, including joint movements, facial expressions, and pulse waves. The PMP hydrogel-based supercapacitor is demonstrated with a high capacitance retention of ≈92.83% and a coulombic efficiency of ≈100%.
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- Zipeng Qin
- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, International Innovation Center for Forest Chemicals and Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China
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- Smart Materials and Surfaces Lab, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- Smart Materials and Surfaces Lab, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Smart Materials and Surfaces Lab, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Products of Universities in Fujian, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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Chen M, Wang W, Fang J, Guo P, Liu X, Li G, Li Z, Wang X, Li J, Lei K. Environmentally adaptive polysaccharide-based hydrogels and their applications in extreme conditions: A review. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 241:124496. [PMID: 37086763 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 04/24/2023]
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Polysaccharide hydrogels are one of the most promising hydrogel materials due to their inherent characteristics, including biocompatibility, biodegradability, renewability, and easy modification, and their structure and functional designs have been widely researched to adapt to different application scenarios as well as to broaden their application fields. As typical wet-soft materials, the high water content and water-absorbing ability of polysaccharide-based hydrogels (PHs) are conducive to their wide biomedical applications, such as wound healing, tissue repair, and drug delivery. In addition, along with technological progress, PHs have shown potential application prospects in some high-tech fields, including human-computer interaction, intelligent driving, smart dressing, flexible sensors, etc. However, in practical applications, due to the poor ability of PHs to resist freezing below zero, dehydration at high temperature, and acid-base/swelling-induced deformation in a solution environment, they are prone to lose their wet-soft peculiarities, including structural integrity, injectability, flexibility, transparency, conductivity and other inherent characteristics, which greatly limit their high-tech applications. Hence, reducing their freezing point, enhancing their high-temperature dehydration resistance, and improving their extreme solution tolerance are powerful approaches to endow PHs with multienvironmental adaptability, broadening their application areas. This report systematically reviews the study advances of environmentally adaptive polysaccharide-based hydrogels (EAPHs), comprising anti-icing hydrogels, high temperature/dehydration resistant hydrogels, and acid/base/swelling deformation resistant hydrogels in recent years. First, the construction methods of EAPHs are presented, and the mechanisms and properties of freeze-resistant, high temperature/dehydration-resistant, and acid/base/swelling deformation-resistant adaptations are simply demonstrated. Meanwhile, the features of different strategies to prepare EAPHs as well as the strategies of simultaneously attaining multienvironmental adaptability are reviewed. Then, the applications of extreme EAPHs are summarized, and some meaningful works are well introduced. Finally, the issues and future outlooks of PH environment adaptation research are elucidated.
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- Meijun Chen
- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- Institute of Engineering Medicine, School of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang District, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China
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- School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, 263 Kaiyuan Road, Luolong District, Luoyang 471023, China.
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Priyadarshani J, Awasthi P, Das S, Chakraborty S. Thermally-modulated shape transition at the interface of soft gel filament and hydrophobic substrate. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 640:246-260. [PMID: 36863181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.02.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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A liquid filament may pinch off into different shapes on interacting with a soft surface, as modulated by the interplay of inertial, capillary, and viscous forces. While similar shape transitions may intuitively be realized for more complex materials such as soft gel filaments as well, their intricate controllability towards deriving precise and stable morphological features remains challenging, as attributed to the complexities stemming from the underlying interfacial interactions over the relevant length and time scales during the sol-gel transition process. Circumventing these deficits in the reported literature, here we report a new means of precisely-controlled fabrication of gel microbeads via exploiting thermally-modulated instabilities of a soft filament atop a hydrophobic substrate. Our experiments reveal that abrupt morphological transitions of the gel material set in at a threshold temperature, resulting in spontaneous capillary thinning and filament breakup. We show that this phenomenon may be precisely modulated by an alteration in the hydration state of the gel material that may be preferentially dictated by its intrinsic glycerol content. Our results demonstrate that the consequent morphological transitions give rise to topologically-selective microbeads as an exclusive signature of the interfacial interactions of the gel material with the deformable hydrophobic interface underneath. Thus, intricate control may be imposed on the spatio-temporal evolution of the deforming gel, facilitating the inception of highly ordered structures of specific shapes and dimensionalities on demand. This is likely to advance the strategies of long shelf-life analytical biomaterial encapsulations via realizing one-step physical immobilization of bio-analytes on the bead surfaces as a new route to controlled materials processing, without demanding any resourced microfabrication facility or delicate consumable materials.
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- Jyotsana Priyadarshani
- School of Medical Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India; Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven 3001, Belgium
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- School of Medical Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- School of Medical Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India.
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Song B, Fan X, Gu H. Chestnut-Tannin-Crosslinked, Antibacterial, Antifreezing, Conductive Organohydrogel as a Strain Sensor for Motion Monitoring, Flexible Keyboards, and Velocity Monitoring. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:2147-2162. [PMID: 36562537 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c18441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Flexible sensing devices (FSDs) fabricated using conductive hydrogels have attracted researchers' extensive enthusiasm in recent years due to their versatility. Considering the complexity of their application environments, the integration of various functional characteristics (e.g., excellent mechanical, antibacterial, and antifreezing properties) is an important guarantee for FSDs to stably perform their applications in different environments. Herein, we developed a multifunctional conductive polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) organohydrogel PVA-CT-Ag-Al-Gly (PCAAG) by using a green, natural, and cheap biomass, chestnut tannin (CT), as a crosslinking agent, nano-silver particles (AgNPs) as an antimicrobial agent, aluminum trichloride (AlCl3) as a conducting medium, and the mixed water-glycerol as the solvent system. In this organohydrogel system, CT acted not only as the reducing and stabilizing agent for the preparation of antibacterial AgNPs but also as the crosslinking agent owing to its strong multiple hydrogen bonding interactions with PVA, realizing its multifunctional application. The PCAAG organohydrogel possessed outstanding physical and mechanical properties (350.54% of the maximum fracture strain and 1.55 MPa of the maximum tensile strength), considerable bacteriostatic effects against both Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, and excellent freeze resistance (it could function normally at -20 °C). The motion-monitoring sensor based on the PCAAG organohydrogel exhibited excellent specificity recognition for both large-amplitude (e.g., elbow bending, wrist bending, finger bending, running and walking, etc.) and small-amplitude (frowning and swallowing) human movements. The flexible keyboard constructed by using the PCAAG organohydrogel could easily achieve the transformation between digital signals and electrical signals, and the signal output had both specificity and stability. The velocity-monitoring sensor fabricated by using the PCAAG organohydrogel could accurately measure the speed of the object movement (less than 3% of relative error). In short, the present PCAAG organohydrogel solves the problems of the single application environment and a few application scenarios of traditional conductive hydrogels and possesses remarkable application potential as a multifunctional FSD in many fields such as artificial intelligence, sport management, soft robots, and human-computer interface.
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- Bin Song
- Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu610065, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Clean Technology in Leather Industry, Sichuan University, Chengdu610065, China
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- Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu610065, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Clean Technology in Leather Industry, Sichuan University, Chengdu610065, China
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- Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu610065, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Clean Technology in Leather Industry, Sichuan University, Chengdu610065, China
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Yan J, Wang L, Zhao C, Xiang D, Li H, Lai J, Wang B, Li Z, Lu H, Zhou H, Wu Y. Stretchable Semi-Interpenetrating Carboxymethyl Guar Gum-Based Composite Hydrogel for Moisture-Proof Wearable Strain Sensor. Langmuir 2023; 39:1061-1071. [PMID: 36623252 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Wearable strain sensors of conductive hydrogels have very broad application prospects in electronic skins and human-machine interfaces. However, conductive hydrogels suffer from unstable signal transmission due to environmental humidity and inherent shortcomings of their materials. Herein, we introduce a novel moisture-proof conductive hydrogel with high toughness (2.89 MJ m-3), mechanical strength (1.00 MPa), and high moisture-proof sensing performance by using dopamine-functionalized gold nanoparticles as conductive fillers into carboxymethyl guar gum and acrylamide. Moreover, the hydrogel can realize real-time monitoring of major and subtle human movements with good sensitivity and repeatability. In addition, the hydrogel-assembled strain sensor exhibits stable sensing signals after being left for 1 h, and the relative resistance change rate under different strains (25-300%) shows no obvious noise signal up to 99% relative humidity. Notably, the wearable strain sensing is suitable for wearable sensor devices with high relative humidity.
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- Jiao Yan
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Functional Materials and Devices, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an710021, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
- Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu610500, China
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Deng S, Wang L, Zhao C, Xiang D, Li H, Wang B, Li Z, Zhou H, Wu Y. Low coefficient of friction hydrogels with fast self-healing properties inspired by articular cartilage. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2023; 656:130380. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.130380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cotner SN, Shams Es‐haghi S. Unimpaired highly extensible tough chemically crosslinked hydrogel after experiencing freeze/thaw and boiling processes. POLYM ENG SCI 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pen.26215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Stella N. Cotner
- Advanced Structures and Composites Center The University of Maine Orono Maine USA
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- Advanced Structures and Composites Center The University of Maine Orono Maine USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering The University of Maine Orono Maine USA
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Zhao C, Liu L, Guo M, Sun Z, Chen Y, Wu Y, Li Y, Xiang D, Li H, Li Z. Double-network hydrogel-based stretchable, adhesive, and conductive e-skin sensor coupled human skin-like biocompatible and protective properties. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.129803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Ye W, Guo M, Li Q, Wang L, Zhao C, Xiang D, Lai J, Li H, Li Z, Wu Y. High strength, anti‐freezing, and conductive poly(vinyl alcohol)/urea ionic hydrogels as soft sensor. POLYM ENG SCI 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pen.26160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Wenhao Ye
- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- The Collaborative Innovation Center of Functional Materials and Devices, School of Materials and Environmental Engineering Chengdu Technological University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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Liang Y, Ding Q, Wang H, Wu Z, Li J, Li Z, Tao K, Gui X, Wu J. Humidity Sensing of Stretchable and Transparent Hydrogel Films for Wireless Respiration Monitoring. Nanomicro Lett 2022; 14:183. [PMID: 36094761 PMCID: PMC9468213 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-022-00934-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Respiratory monitoring plays a pivotal role in health assessment and provides an important application prospect for flexible humidity sensors. However, traditional humidity sensors suffer from a trade-off between deformability, sensitivity, and transparency, and thus the development of high-performance, stretchable, and low-cost humidity sensors is urgently needed as wearable electronics. Here, ultrasensitive, highly deformable, and transparent humidity sensors are fabricated based on cost-effective polyacrylamide-based double network hydrogels. Concomitantly, a general method for preparing hydrogel films with controllable thickness is proposed to boost the sensitivity of hydrogel-based sensors due to the extensively increased specific surface area, which can be applied to different polymer networks and facilitate the development of flexible integrated electronics. In addition, sustainable tapioca rich in hydrophilic polar groups is introduced for the first time as a second cross-linked network, exhibiting excellent water adsorption capacity. Through the synergistic optimization of structure and composition, the obtained hydrogel film exhibits an ultrahigh sensitivity of 13,462.1%/%RH, which is unprecedented. Moreover, the hydrogel film-based sensor exhibits excellent repeatability and the ability to work normally under stretching with even enhanced sensitivity. As a proof of concept, we integrate the stretchable sensor with a specially designed wireless circuit and mask to fabricate a wireless respiratory interruption detection system with Bluetooth transmission, enabling real-time monitoring of human health status. This work provides a general strategy to construct high-performance, stretchable, and miniaturized hydrogel-based sensors as next-generation wearable devices for real-time monitoring of various physiological signals.
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- Yuning Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Systems for Aerospace, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People's Republic of China.
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Ko S, Chhetry A, Kim D, Yoon H, Park JY. Hysteresis-Free Double-Network Hydrogel-Based Strain Sensor for Wearable Smart Bioelectronics. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:31363-31372. [PMID: 35764418 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c09895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Hydrogel-based electronics have attracted substantial attention in the field of biological engineering, energy storage devices, and soft actuators due to their resemblance to living tissues, biocompatibility, tunable softness, and consolidated structures. However, combining the properties of quick resilience, hysteresis-free, and robust mechanical properties in physically cross-linked hydrogels is still a great challenge. Herein, we present a vinyl hybrid silica nanoparticle (VSNPs)/polyacrylamide (PAAm)/alginate double-network hydrogel-based strain sensor with the characteristics of quick resilience, hysteresis-free, and a low limit of detection (LOD). The physical cross-linking among PAAm chains and covalent cross-linking between PAAm, alginate, and N,N-methylenebisacrylamide chains promotes excellent mechanical properties. Moreover, the incorporation of VSNPs reinforces the mechanical strength by the dynamic cross-linking of the PAAm network to maintain the integrity of the hydrogel and works as a stress buffer to dissipate energy. The as-prepared hydrogel-based sensor exhibits a strain sensitivity (i.e., gauge factor) of 1.73 (up to 100% strain), a response time of 0.16 s, an ultra-low electrical hysteresis of 2.43%, and a low LOD of 0.4%. The outstanding properties of the hydrogel are further used to illustrate the utility of the sensor in e-skin, ranging from low-strain applications, such as carotid pulse and artificial sound detection, to large bending applications, such as sign language translations. In addition, an efficient and cost-effective synthesis of double-network hydrogel that can overcome the bottleneck of the electromechanical properties of single network hydrogel has potential prospects in soft actuators, tissue engineering, and various biomedical applications.
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- Seokgyu Ko
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Research (ASER) Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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- Advanced Sensor and Energy Research (ASER) Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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- Advanced Sensor and Energy Research (ASER) Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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- Advanced Sensor and Energy Research (ASER) Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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- Advanced Sensor and Energy Research (ASER) Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Republic of Korea
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Liu G, Guo M, Xue S, Yang X, Wang L, Zhao C, Xiang D, Li H, Lai J, Li Z, Wu Y. Stretchable, conductive poly(acrylamide‐
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‐maleic acid)/triethylene glycol/
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double‐crosslinked organohydrogel with excellent antifreezing and sensing properties. J Appl Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/app.52797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Guanfei Liu
- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Mianyang Normal University Mianyang China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, Sichuan Engineering Technology Research Center of Basalt Fiber Composites Development and Application Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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Fan M, He Z, Wu L, Tang P, Bin Y. Outstanding temperature‐tolerant conductive polyacrylamide/sodium carboxymethylcellulose hydrogel with ultra‐stretchability and good strain sensing performance. J Appl Polym Sci. [DOI: 10.1002/app.52687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Various intelligent hydrogels have been developed for biomedical applications because they can achieve multiple, variable, controllable and reversible changes in their shape and properties in a spatial and temporal manner,...
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Zeng R, Qi C, Lu S, Xu J, Zhao C, Dong Z, Lei C. Hydrophobic association and ionic coordination dual crossed‐linked conductive hydrogels with self‐adhesive and self‐healing virtues for conformal strain sensors. Journal of Polymer Science 2022; 60:812-24. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Grip J, Steene E, Einar Engstad R, Hart J, Bell A, Skjæveland I, Basnet P, Škalko-Basnet N, Mari Holsæter A. Development of a novel beta-glucan supplemented hydrogel spray formulation and wound healing efficacy in a db/db diabetic mouse model. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2021; 169:280-291. [PMID: 34728362 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2021.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Revised: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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To relief the severe economic and social burdens and patient suffering caused by the increasing incidence of chronic wounds, more effective treatments are urgently needed. In this study, we focused on developing a novel sprayable wound dressing with the active ingredient β-1,3/1,6-glucan (βG). Since βG is already available as the active ingredient in a commercial wound healing product provided as a hydrogel in a tube (βG-Gel), the sprayable format should bring clinical benefit by being easily sprayed onto wounds; whilst retaining βG-Gel's physical stability, biological safety and wound healing efficacy. Potentially sprayable βG hydrogels were therefore formulated, based on an experimental design setup. One spray formulation, named βG-Spray, was selected for further investigation, as it showed favorable rheological and spraying properties. The βG-Spray was furthermore found to be stable at room temperature for more than a year, retaining its rheological properties and sprayability. The cytotoxicity of βG-Spray in keratinocytes in vitro, was shown to be promising even at the highest tested concentration of 100 μg/ml. The βG-Spray also displayed favorable fluid affinity characteristics, with a capacity to both donate and absorb close to 10% fluid relative to its own weight. Finally, the βG-Spray was proven comparably effective to the commercial product, βG-Gel, and superior to both the water and the carrier controls (NoβG-Spray), in terms of its ability to promote wound healing in healing-impaired animals. Contraction was found to be the main wound closure mechanism responsible for the improvement seen in the βG-treatment groups (βG-Spray and βG-Gel). In conclusion, the novel sprayable βG formulation, confirmed its potential to expand the clinical use of βG as wound dressing.
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- Jostein Grip
- Biotec BetaGlucans AS, Tromsø 9019, Norway; Drug Transport and Delivery Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9037, Norway
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- Cica Biomedical Ltd, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 9AY, UK
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- Cica Biomedical Ltd, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 9AY, UK
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- Women's Health and Perinatology Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9037, Norway; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital of North Norway, Sykehusveien, Tromsø 5738, 9038, Norway
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- Drug Transport and Delivery Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9037, Norway
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- Drug Transport and Delivery Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9037, Norway.
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Yin S, Su G, Chen J, Peng X, Zhou T. Ultra-Stretchable and Self-Healing Anti-Freezing Strain Sensors Based on Hydrophobic Associated Polyacrylic Acid Hydrogels. Materials (Basel) 2021; 14:6165. [PMID: 34683757 PMCID: PMC8538095 DOI: 10.3390/ma14206165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Water-rich conductive hydrogels with excellent stretchability are promising in strain sensors due to their potential application in flexible electronics. However, the features of being water-rich also limit their working environment. Hydrogels must be frozen at subzero temperatures and dried out under ambient conditions, leading to a loss of mechanical and electric properties. Herein, we prepare HAGx hydrogels (a polyacrylic acid (HAPAA) hydrogel in a binary water-glycerol solution, where x is the mass ratio of water to glycerol), in which the water is replaced with water-glycerol mixed solutions. The as-prepared HAGx hydrogels show great anti-freezing properties at a range of -70 to 25 °C, as well as excellent moisture stability (the weight retention rate was as high as 93% after 14 days). With the increase of glycerol, HAGx hydrogels demonstrate a superior stretchable and self-healing ability, which could even be stretched to more than 6000% without breaking, and had a 100% self-healing efficiency. The HAGx hydrogels had good self-healing ability at subzero temperatures. In addition, HAGx hydrogels also had eye-catching adhesive properties and transparency, which is helpful when used as strain sensors.
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- Shuya Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering of China, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China; (S.Y.); (G.S.); (J.C.); (X.P.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering of China, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China; (S.Y.); (G.S.); (J.C.); (X.P.)
- College of Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625014, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering of China, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China; (S.Y.); (G.S.); (J.C.); (X.P.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering of China, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China; (S.Y.); (G.S.); (J.C.); (X.P.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering of China, Polymer Research Institute, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China; (S.Y.); (G.S.); (J.C.); (X.P.)
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Wang Z, Zhang X, Cao T, Wang T, Sun L, Wang K, Fan X. Antiliquid-Interfering, Antibacteria, and Adhesive Wearable Strain Sensor Based on Superhydrophobic and Conductive Composite Hydrogel. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:46022-46032. [PMID: 34542266 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c15052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Conductive hydrogels are promising multifunctional materials for wearable sensors, but their practical applications require combined properties that are difficult to achieve. Herein, we developed a flexible wearable sensor with double-layer structure based on conductive composite hydrogel, which included the outer layer of silicone elastomer (Ecoflex)/silica microparticle composite film and the inner layer of P(AAm-co-HEMA)-MXene-AgNPs hydrogel. Through covalently cross-linking silicone elastomer on the surface of the hydrogel polymer, we bonded a thin Ecoflex film (100 μm) on the P(AAm-co-HEMA)-MXene-AgNPs hydrogel with robust interface, which can easily adhere to the Ecoflex/SiO2 microparticle composite film by silicone glue. The Ecoflex/SiO2 microparticle composite film endows the strain wearable sensor with superhydrophobic function that could maintain the stability under stretching or bending. Moreover, it can effectively resist the interference of water droplets and water flow. The P(AAm-co-HEMA)-MXene-AgNPs hydrogel exhibits outstanding antibacterial activity to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and even drug-resistant Escherichia coli. In addition, the flexible wearable sensor exhibited good self-adhesive performance by changing the reaction temperature of hydrogel and can adhere strongly onto various materials. The conductive composite hydrogel reported in this work contributes an innovative strategy for the preparation of multifunctional flexible wearable sensor.
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- Zichao Wang
- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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- The key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, P. R. China
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Li M, Han X, Chen H, Xiao H, Fan Z, Zhang Y, Si L, Li Q, Xie G. Multifunctional hydrogel prepared via polymerization initiated by mechanically induced heat of coordination. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.126816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Xue S, Ye Z, Tang Q, Wang Y. A facile route to dual-crosslinking polymeric hydrogels with enhanced mechanical property. Journal of Polymer Engineering 2021. [DOI: 10.1515/polyeng-2021-0090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Polymeric hydrogels with excellent biocompatibility, high hydrophilicity, and water-holding capacity have attracted considerable concerns in widely fields. However, most hydrogels exhibit poor mechanical property, which largely limited their applications. Herein, a novel dual-crosslinking polymeric hydrogel crosslinked by covalent bonds and metal coordination interactions between Fe3+ and –COO- was fabricated through accessible method. The metal coordination interactions within the hydrogel were established through dipping in the FeCl3 solution to reinforce the backbones of the hydrogel. The obtained polymeric hydrogel exhibits enhanced tensile strength (∼4.92 MPa), stiffness (∼6.168 MPa), and toughness (∼2.835 MJ m−3).
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- Shishan Xue
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Mianyang Normal University , Mianyang 62100 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Mianyang Normal University , Mianyang 62100 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Mianyang Normal University , Mianyang 62100 , China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Mianyang Normal University , Mianyang 62100 , China
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Ding F, Ding H, Shen Z, Qian L, Ouyang J, Zeng S, Seery TAP, Li J, Wu G, Chavez SE, Smith AT, Liu L, Li Y, Sun L. Super Stretchable and Compressible Hydrogels Inspired by Hook-and-Loop Fasteners. Langmuir 2021; 37:7760-7770. [PMID: 34129778 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Inspired by hook-and-loop fasteners, we designed a hydrogel network containing α-zirconium phosphate (ZrP) two-dimensional nanosheets with a high density of surface hydroxyl groups serving as nanopatches with numerous "hooks," while polymer chains with plentiful amine functional groups serve as "loops." Our multiscale molecular simulations confirm that both the high density of hydroxyl groups on nanosheets and the large number of amine functional groups on polymer chains are essential to achieve reversible interactions at the molecular scale, functioning as nano hook-and-loop fasteners to dissipate energy. As a result, the synthesized hydrogel possesses superior stretchability (>2100% strain), resilience to compression (>90% strain), and durability. Remarkably, the hydrogel can sustain >5000 cycles of compression with torsion in a solution mimicking synovial fluid, thus promising for potential biomedical applications such as artificial articular cartilage. This hook-and-loop model can be adopted and generalized to design a wide range of multifunctional materials with exceptional mechanical properties.
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- Fuchuan Ding
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science & Fujian Key Laboratory of Polymer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connnecticut 06269, United States
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connnecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Anatomy and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Biomechanics, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Anatomy and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Biomechanics, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connnecticut 06269, United States
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science & Fujian Key Laboratory of Polymer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science & Fujian Key Laboratory of Polymer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connnecticut 06269, United States
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connnecticut 06269, United States
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connnecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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Wang S, Xiang J, Sun Y, Wang H, Du X, Cheng X, Du Z, Wang H. Skin-inspired nanofibrillated cellulose-reinforced hydrogels with high mechanical strength, long-term antibacterial, and self-recovery ability for wearable strain/pressure sensors. Carbohydr Polym 2021; 261:117894. [PMID: 33766379 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.117894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The advent of electric skins (E-skin) with tactile sensation, flexibility, and human affinity characteristics have attracted considerable attention in extensive research fields, including intelligent robots and health monitoring, etc. To improve the intrinsic brittleness of hydrogels, a multifunctional E-skin was fabricated involving a TEMPO-NFC and a covalently cross-linked polyacrylamide (PAM) network. In this work, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as long-term antibacterial agent and conductive fillers were coated onto NFC nanofibers. Subsequently, this nanocomposite hydrogel was synthesized by free radical copolymerization of AM monomers with PNAg fibers as interpenetrating fibers network. Importantly with NFC present, the nanocomposite hydrogel exhibited superior mechanical performance and excellent self-recovery ability. The obtained sensor with excellent mechanical stability and sensing performance could detect mechanotransduction signal of human movements. This work provides a practicable method to prepare high antibacterial efficiency, excellent mechanical performance, and dual-modal nanocellulose-based hydrogel sensor for the broad-range application in human-motion detection and intelligence skins.
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Zhao L, Zhao J, Zhang F, Xu Z, Chen F, Shi Y, Hou C, Huang Y, Lin C, Yu R, Guo W. Highly Stretchable, Adhesive, and Self-Healing Silk Fibroin-Dopted Hydrogels for Wearable Sensors. Adv Healthc Mater 2021; 10:e2002083. [PMID: 33763942 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202002083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Revised: 02/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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In recent years, the preparations of flexible electronic devices have attracted great attention. Here, a simple one-pot method of thermal polymerization is introduced to fabricate silk fibroin-dopted hydrogels (SFHs), which are both chemically and physically cross-linked by acrylamide (AM), acrylic acid (AA), and silk fibroin (SF). The addition of SF can effectively enhance the mechanical property of the SFH12% by 59% compared with SFH0% . Taking the advantage of its wide working range of stress (about 0.455-568.9 kPa), the SFH can work as a resistance-type pressure sensor to monitor different human motions. What is more, the excellent adhesion, about 75.17 N m-1 of SFH46% enables it to fit tightly to other objects during the testing, which significantly reduces the loss of small signals due to poor fit. In addition, the SFH demonstrates excellent self-healing property without requiring external excitation and a sensitive temperature response in the range of -10 to 60 °C. The SFH is expected to be applied in the field of electronic skin, soft robots, and other flexible electronic products as well as speech recognition.
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- Li Zhao
- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Estuarine Ecological Security and Environmental Health of Fujian Province University School of Environmental Science and Engineering Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College Zhangzhou 363105 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Estuarine Ecological Security and Environmental Health of Fujian Province University School of Environmental Science and Engineering Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College Zhangzhou 363105 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen 361005 P. R. China
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Luo X, Wu Y, Guo M, Yang X, Xie L, Lai J, Li Z, Zhou H. Multi‐functional polyurethane composites with self‐healing and shape memory properties enhanced by graphene oxide. J Appl Polym Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/app.50827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Xin Luo
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- School of New Energy and Materials Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Functional Materials and Devices, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering Xi'an Technological University Xi'an China
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Xiang X, Li H, Zhu Y, Xia S, He Q. The composite hydrogel with “
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flexible crosslinking point” of
reduced graphene oxide
for strain sensor. J Appl Polym Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/app.50801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Xu Xiang
- School of Materials Science and Engineering Chongqing Jiaotong University Chongqing China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Chongqing Jiaotong University Chongqing China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Chongqing Jiaotong University Chongqing China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Chongqing Jiaotong University Chongqing China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Chongqing Jiaotong University Chongqing China
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Li Z, Xu W, Wang X, Jiang W, Ma X, Wang F, Zhang C, Ren C. Fabrication of PVA/PAAm IPN hydrogel with high adhesion and enhanced mechanical properties for body sensors and antibacterial activity. Eur Polym J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2020.110253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Jian Y, Handschuh-Wang S, Zhang J, Lu W, Zhou X, Chen T. Biomimetic anti-freezing polymeric hydrogels: keeping soft-wet materials active in cold environments. Mater Horiz 2021; 8:351-369. [PMID: 34821259 DOI: 10.1039/d0mh01029d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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As one of the most outstanding materials, the analysis of the structure and function of hydrogels has been extensively carried out to tailor and adapt them to various fields of application. The high water content, which is beneficial for plenty of applications in the biomedical setting, prevents the adoption of hydrogels in flexible electronics and sensors in real life applications, because hydrogels lose their excellent properties, including conductivity, transparency, flexibility, etc., upon freezing at sub-zero temperatures. Therefore, depressing the liquid-solid phase transition temperature is a powerful means to expand the application scope of hydrogels, and will benefit the chemical engineering and materials science communities. This review summarizes the recent research progress of anti-freezing hydrogels. At first, approaches for the generation of anti-freezing (hydro)gels are introduced and their anti-freezing mechanisms and performances are briefly discussed. These approaches are either based on addition of salts, alcohols (cryoprotectants and organohydrogels), and ionic liquids (ionogels), modification of the polymer network or a combination of several techniques. Then, a concise overview of applications leveraged by the widened temperature resistance is provided and future research areas and developments are envisaged.
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- Yukun Jian
- Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China.
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Yang X, Guo M, Wu Y, Xue S, Li Z, Zhou H, Smith AT, Sun L. Biomimetic Boroxine-Based Multifunctional Thermosets via One-Pot Synthesis. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:56445-56453. [PMID: 33327055 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c16736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Boroxine-based thermosets with remarkable mechanical tunability, self-healing ability, recyclability, and adhesive strength are of significant importance in various applications. However, complex multistep reactions are often required to prepare such thermosets. Herein, a facile one-pot approach to synthesize boroxine-based malleable thermosets is proposed. Random copolymers with pendant boronic acid groups were synthesized from alkenyl monomers containing boronic acids [4-vinylphenylboronic acid (4-VPBA), 3-vinylphenylboronic acid, or 3-acrylamidophenylboronic acid] and octadecanoxy polyethylene glycol methacrylate. Then, the as-prepared copolymers were cured to form thermosets with boroxine bonds. The tensile strengths of the thermosets were tailored to range from 9.3 to 27.5 MPa by increasing the concentration of 4-VPBA. Moreover, because of the reversible nature of dynamic boroxine bonds (transformation between boroxines and boronic acids) induced by water, the thermosets exhibit remarkable self-healing efficiency (up to 99%), tunable mechanical properties, and excellent recyclability. Additionally, the thermosets also demonstrate superior adhesive strength (as high as 73.9 MPa) on different substrates.
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- Xi Yang
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
- State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, Sichuan, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of New Energy and Materials, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Functional Materials and Devices, School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an 710021, China
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science and Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science and Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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Li Z, Chen J, Chen L, Guo M, Wu Y, Wei Y, Wang J, Wang X. Hollow Au/Polypyrrole Capsules to Form Porous and Neural Network-Like Nanofibrous Film for Wearable, Super-Rapid, and Ultrasensitive NH 3 Sensor at Room Temperature. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:55056-55063. [PMID: 33232105 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Wearable conducting polymer-based NH3 sensors are highly desirable in real-time environmental monitoring and human health protection but still a challenge for their relatively long response/recovery time and moderate sensitivity at room temperature. Herein, we present an effective route to fulfill this challenge by constructing porous and neural network-like Au/polypyrrole (Au/PPy) electrospun nanofibrous film with hollow capsular units for NH3 sensor. Taking the unique architecture and synergistic effect between Au and PPy, our sensor exhibits not only super-rapid response/recovery time (both ∼7 s), faster than all reported sensors, but also stable and ultrahigh sensitivity (response reaches ∼2.3 for 1 ppm NH3) at room temperature even during repeated deformation. Furthermore, good selectivity has been also achieved. These outstanding properties make our sensor hold great potential in real-time NH3-related disease diagnosis and environmental monitoring at room temperature.
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- Zhenyu Li
- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, Sichuan, China
- Chengdu Evermaterials Co., Ltd., Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
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- Chengdu Evermaterials Co., Ltd., Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
- Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Locked Bag 2000, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, Sichuan, China
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- The Center of Functional Materials for Working Fluids of Oil and Gas Field, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, Sichuan, China
- Chengdu Evermaterials Co., Ltd., Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Locked Bag 2000, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
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- Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Locked Bag 2000, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
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Disease diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy can be monitored via a number of established bioassays that sample body fluids to assess and monitor health conditions. Traditional bioassays generally include several steps and start with invasive body fluid extraction procedures. These steps are painful and often require specialized techniques and tailored equipment, as well as the supervision of professional medical personnel. Innovations in engineering alternative bioassays to address these shortcomings are thus desired. Microneedles (MNs) represent promising tools to sample body fluids, in view of their minimal invasiveness, painlessness, and uncomplicated implementation. Recent progress in microfabrication and materials engineering, including the development of hollow and solid MNs with uniquely optimized architectures and multi-functional materials, has positioned MN-based platforms as prime candidates for bioassay solutions. In this minireview, we summarize the studies of MN-based platforms for detection and diagnosis. We categorize the platforms based on three different mechanisms: MNs as body fluid reservoirs, MNs integrated with electrochemical assays, and MNs engineered with colorimetric analyses. A discussion of design principles for MN-based bioassay platforms is presented. We also discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with MN-based bioassays in future clinical applications.
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- Jixiang Zhu
- Department of Bioengineering, Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT), University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
- Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University Guangzhou 511436 China
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- Department of Bioengineering, Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT), University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT), University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT), University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095 USA
- Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation Los Angeles CA 90024 USA
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The skin is a "smart", multifunctional organ that is protective, self-healing and capable of sensing and many forms of artificial skins have been developed with properties and functionalities approximating those of natural skin. Starting from specific commercial products for the treatment of burns, progress in two fields of research has since allowed these remarkable materials to be viable skin replacements for a wide range of dermatological conditions. This review maps out the development of bioengineered skin replacements and synthetic skin substitutes, including electronic skins. The specific behaviors of these skins are highlighted, and the performances of both types of artificial skins are evaluated against this. Moving beyond mere replication, highly advanced artificial skin materials are also identified as potential augmented skins that can be used as flexible electronics for health-care monitoring and other applications.
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- Zhi Wei Kenny Low
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, 2Fusionopolis Way, Innovis, #08-03, Singapore 138634.
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Li Z, Meng X, Xu W, Zhang S, Ouyang J, Zhang Z, Liu Y, Niu Y, Ma S, Xue Z, Song A, Zhang S, Ren C. Single network double cross-linker (SNDCL) hydrogels with excellent stretchability, self-recovery, adhesion strength, and conductivity for human motion monitoring. Soft Matter 2020; 16:7323-7331. [PMID: 32677629 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00375a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Hydrogels, as a kind of soft materials, are good candidates for smart skin-like materials. A double network is usually fabricated to improve the mechanical properties of hydrogels, and involves two different kinds of networks. In this work, a novel strategy for preparing single network double cross-linker (SNDCL) hydrogels was proposed and the prepared hydrogels exhibited excellent mechanical properties, including stretchability, compressibility, self-recovery, adhesion, shape memory and mechanical strength. N,N'-Methylenebisacrylamide forms covalent bonds with the network, while citric acid can form multiple weak interactions due to the polycarboxylic structure. This improves the tensile properties (6564%) and compressive properties of the hydrogel, and the hydrogels also exhibit long-lasting self-adhesion ability on various substrates. In addition, the hydrogels with multiple properties can be used as flexible strain sensors, allowing the monitoring of body movements. The hydrogels can hopefully be used in wearable electronic sensor devices and for healthcare monitoring.
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- Zhenghao Li
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, Jinan, 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, Jinan, 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- Yantai Institute of Materia Medica, Yantai, 264000, China.
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Zhou H, Jin Z, Yuan Y, Zhang G, Zhao W, Jin X, Ma A, Liu H, Chen W. Self-repairing flexible strain sensors based on nanocomposite hydrogels for whole-body monitoring. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020; 592:124587. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.124587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Seo Y, Kim BS, Ballance WC, Aw N, Sutton B, Kong H. Transparent and Flexible Electronics Assembled with Metallic Nanowire-Layered Nondrying Glycerogel. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:13040-13050. [PMID: 32072806 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b21697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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There has been increasing demand for transparent and mechanically durable electrical conductors for their uses in wearable electronic devices. It is common to layer metallic nanowires on transparent but stiff poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) or stretchable but opaque Ecoflex-based substrates. Here, we hypothesized that layering metallic nanowires on a stretchable and hygroscopic gel would allow us to assemble a transparent, stretchable, and durable conductor. The hygroscopic property of the gel was attained by partially replacing water in the preformed polyacrylamide hydrogel with glycerol. The resulting gel, denoted as a glycerogel, could remain hydrated for over 6 months in air by taking up water molecules from the air. The glycerogel was tailored to be stretchable up to 8 times its original length by tuning the amount of the cross-linker and acrylamide. The resulting glycerogel allowed for deposition of wavy silver nanowires using the prestrain method up to 400% prestrain, without causing kinks and interfacial cracks often found with nanowires layered onto PDMS. With a prestrain of 100%, the resulting nanowire-gel conductor exhibited optical transparency (85%) and electrical conductivity (17.1 ohm/sq) even after 5000 cycles of deformation. The results of this study would broadly be useful to improve the performance of the next generation of flexible electronic devices.
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- Yongbeom Seo
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Bioengineering and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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He F, You X, Gong H, Yang Y, Bai T, Wang W, Guo W, Liu X, Ye M. Stretchable, Biocompatible, and Multifunctional Silk Fibroin-Based Hydrogels toward Wearable Strain/Pressure Sensors and Triboelectric Nanogenerators. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:6442-6450. [PMID: 31935061 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b19721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Nowadays, great effort has been devoted to establishing wearable electronics with excellent stretchability, high sensitivity, good mechanical strength, and multifunctional characteristics. Herein, a soft conductive hydrogel is rationally designed by proportionally mixing silk fibroin, polyacrylamide, graphene oxide, and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate). The resultant hydrogel has considerable stretchability and compressibility, which enables it to be assembled into a strain/pressure sensor with a wide sensing range (strain, 2%-600%; pressure, 0.5-119.4 kPa) and reliable stability. Then, the corresponding sensor is capable of monitoring a series of physical signals of the human body (e.g., joint movement, facial gesture, pulse, breathing, etc.). In particular, the hydrogel-based sensor is biocompatible, with no anaphylactic reaction on human skin. More interestingly, this conductive hydrogel exhibits a positive response when it works in a triboelectric nanogenerator; consequently, it lights up 20 commericial green light-emitting diodes. Thus, this silk fibroin-based hydrogel is a kind of multifunctional material toward wearable electronics with versatile applications in health and exercise monitors, soft robots, and power sources.
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- Faliang He
- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science , National University of Singapore , 119077, Singapore
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- Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005 , China
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Wei P, Chen T, Chen G, Liu H, Mugaanire IT, Hou K, Zhu M. Conductive Self-Healing Nanocomposite Hydrogel Skin Sensors with Antifreezing and Thermoresponsive Properties. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:3068-3079. [PMID: 31869196 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b20254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
With growing interest in flexible and wearable devices, the demand for nature-inspired soft smart materials, especially intelligent hydrogels with multiple perceptions toward external strain and temperatures to mimic the human skin, is on the rise. However, simultaneous achievement of intelligent hydrogels with skin-compatible performances, including good transparency, appropriate mechanical properties, autonomous self-healing ability, multiple mechanical/thermoresponsiveness, and retaining flexibility at subzero temperatures, is still challenging and thus limits their application as skinlike devices. Here, conductive nanocomposite hydrogels (NC gels) were delicately designed and prepared via gelation of oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate (OEGMA)-based monomers in a glycerol-water cosolvent, where inorganic clay served as the physical cross-linker and provided conductive ions. The resultant NC gels exhibited good conductivity (∼3.32 × 10-4 S cm-1, akin to biological muscle tissue) and an autonomously self-healing capacity (healing efficiency reached 84.8%). Additionally, such NC gels displayed excellent flexibility and responded well to multiple strain/temperature external stimuli and subtle human motions in a wide temperature range (from -20 to 45 °C). These distinguished properties would endow such NC gels significant applications in fields of biosensors, human-machine interfaces, and soft robotics.
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- Peiling Wei
- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering , Donghua University , 2999 North Renmin Road , Shanghai 201620 , P. R. China
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