Puncture-Resistant Hydrogel: Placing Molecular Complexes Along Phase Boundaries

Xueqi Zhao; Meixiang Wang; Yongmei Chen; Ziguang Chen; Tao Suo; Wen Qian; Jian Hu; Xiaoping Song; Wai-Ning Mei; Renat Sabirianov; Li Tan

doi:10.1021/acsami.9b02328

journal article·2019-05-29

Puncture-Resistant Hydrogel: Placing Molecular Complexes Along Phase Boundaries

Xueqi Zhao, Meixiang Wang, Yongmei Chen, Ziguang Chen, Tao Suo, Wen Qian, Jian Hu, Xiaoping Song, Wai-Ning Mei, Renat Sabirianov, Li Tan

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces· Volume 11· Issue 21

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Trendy advances in electric cars and wearable electronics triggered growing awareness in device lethality/survivability from accidents. A divergent design in protection calls for high stress resistance, large ductility, as well as efficient energy dissipation, all from the device itself, while keeping the weight-specific device performance to its premium. Unfortunately, the polymer electrolyte or the ductile elastomer lacks a mechanistic design to resist puncture or tear at a high stress level. Here, we designed molecular complexes along phase boundaries to mitigate the damages by placing these mechanically strong complexes along the phase boundaries or between two immiscible polymers. This puncture-resistant gel, dubbed as gel-nacre, is able to survive a few challenging incidents, including a 400 MPa puncture from a sharp nail, a 1 cm steel ball traveling at 540 km/h, and attempted rupture on stitched samples.

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Energy storage Metals & alloys Polymers

OpenAlex topics: Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials · Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications · Advanced Materials and Mechanics

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School of Science, State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, International Center for Applied Mechanics and School of Aerospace, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, China

College of Bioresource Chemicals and Materials Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710021, China

Department of Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 Youyi West Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, China

Department of Physics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68182, United States

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Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China · China Scholarship Council · National Natural Science Foundation of China · J.A. Woollam Foundation · Ministry of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province · Thousand Young Talent Program of China · Program for the Key Science and Technology Innovative Team of Shaanxi Province

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