Issue 21, 2012

Temperature-sensitive bending of bigel strip bonded by macroscopic molecular recognition

Abstract

A direct combination through molecular recognition of two individual hydrogel strips with different temperature sensitivity was proposed. The obtained bigel strip possessed a macroscopically heterogeneous structure and could perform a bending behavior in response to a temperature increase. The bending behavior was tunable by adjusting the ambient temperature.

Graphical abstract: Temperature-sensitive bending of bigel strip bonded by macroscopic molecular recognition

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Mar 2012
Accepted
30 Mar 2012
First published
27 Apr 2012

Soft Matter, 2012,8, 5750-5752

Temperature-sensitive bending of bigel strip bonded by macroscopic molecular recognition

J. Zhang, J. Wu, J. Sun and Q. Zhou, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5750 DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25511A

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