articleAdvanced MaterialsJun 14, 2013Closed access

A Robust, One‐Pot Synthesis of Highly Mechanical and Recoverable Double Network Hydrogels Using Thermoreversible Sol‐Gel Polysaccharide

Henan Polytechnic University · University of Akron

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Abstract

A new type of physically linked double-network hydrogel is synthesized by a simple, time-saving, facile, easily controlled, one-pot method. The resulting agar/polyacrylamide double-network hydrogels exhibit good mechanical properties, excellent recoverability, and a unique free-shapeable property, which makes them very promising hydrogels for load-bearing soft tissues.

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Keywords
  • Self-healing hydrogels
  • Materials science
  • Polyacrylamide
  • Network structure
  • Chemical engineering
  • Load bearing
  • Composite material
  • Polymer chemistry
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