Article Dans Une Revue Advanced Materials Année : 2018

Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels below Water Freezing Temperature

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Hydrogels consist of hydrophilic polymer networks dispersed in water. Many applications of hydrogels rely on their unique combination of solid-like mechanical behavior and water-like transport properties. If the temperature is lowered below 0 °C, however, hydrogels freeze and become rigid, brittle, and non-conductive. Here, a general class of hydrogels that do not freeze at temperatures far below 0 °C, while retaining high stretchability and fracture toughness, is demonstrated. These hydrogels are synthesized by adding a suitable amount of an ionic compound to the hydrogel. The present study focuses on tough polyacrylamide-alginate double network hydrogels equilibrated with aqueous solutions of calcium chloride. The resulting hydrogels can be cooled to temperatures as low as −57 °C without freezing. In this temperature range, the hydrogels can still be stretched more than four times their initial length and have a fracture toughness of 5000 J m−2. It is anticipated that this new class of hydrogels will prove useful in developing new applications operating under a broad range of environmental and atmospheric conditions.

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hal-03850831 , version 1 (02-01-2023)

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Xavier P Morelle, Widusha R Illeperuma, Kevin Tian, Ruobing Z Bai, Zhigang Suo, et al.. Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels below Water Freezing Temperature. Advanced Materials, 2018, 30 (35), pp.1801541. ⟨10.1002/adma.201801541⟩. ⟨hal-03850831⟩
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