Issue 54, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Silicone-based tough hydrogels with high resilience, fast self-recovery, and self-healing properties†

Liqi Si,a   Xiaowen Zheng,a   Jun Nie,ab   Ruixue Yin,c   Yujie Huac  and  Xiaoqun Zhu*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering & Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. China
E-mail: zhuxq@mail.buct.edu.cn
Tel: +86 01064421310

b Changzhou Institute of Advanced Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Changzhou, Jiangsu, P. R. China

c Complex and Intelligent Research Center, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China

Abstract

Tough hydrogels are prepared from two monomers via photopolymerization of hydroxyethyl acrylate and sol–gel of methyltrimethoxysilane. Constitution and water content could be tuned easily because of the good water solubility of both monomers and two non-interfering polymerization processes. The hydrogels exhibit excellent integrated performance with toughness, high resilience, fast self-recovery, and self-healing.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC02665F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Mar 2016
Accepted
18 May 2016
First published
03 Jun 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 8365-8368

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Silicone-based tough hydrogels with high resilience, fast self-recovery, and self-healing properties

L. Si, X. Zheng, J. Nie, R. Yin, Y. Hua and X. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 8365 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02665F

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