Stretchable hydrogels with low hysteresis and anti-fatigue fracture based on polyprotein cross-linkers
oleh: Hai Lei, Liang Dong, Ying Li, Junsheng Zhang, Huiyan Chen, Junhua Wu, Yu Zhang, Qiyang Fan, Bin Xue, Meng Qin, Bin Chen, Yi Cao, Wei Wang
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-08-01 |
Deskripsi
High stretchability, low hysteresis and anti-fatigue fracture are essential for hydrogel-based devices but it is rare to achieve. Here the authors demonstrate a hydrogel design using tandem-repeat proteins as the cross-linkers and random coiled polymers as the percolating network which results in high stretchability, low hysteresis and high fracture toughness.