A self-healing hydrogel formation strategy via exploiting endothermic interactions between polyelectrolytes
Chemical Communications2016Vol. 52(37), pp. 6273–6276
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Ying Ren, Ruyun Lou, Xiaocen Liu, Meng Gao, Huizhen Zheng, Ting Yang, Hongguo Xie, Weiting Yu, Xiaojun Ma
Abstract
We report a strategy to synthesize self-healing hydrogels via exploiting endothermic interactions between polyelectrolytes. Natural polysaccharides and their derivatives were used to form reversible polyelectrolyte complexes by selecting appropriately charged chemical groups and counterions. This simple and effective method to fabricate self-healing hydrogels will find applications in diverse fields such as surface coating and 3D printing.
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