Issue 36, 2020

Electroconductive and free-shapeable nanocomposite hydrogels with an ultrafast self-healing property and high stretchability performance

Abstract

Conductive self-healing hydrogels as a fascinating class of materials have received much attention in recent years and been widely used in many fields. However, a long healing time and poor electrical conductivity have limited their extended applications. To overcome these shortcomings, we fabricated an excellent conductive self-healing hydrogel by embedding a nanocomposite of Ag nanoparticles and reduced graphene oxide (Ag/RGO) in PVA–borax dynamic networks, which exhibits a relatively high conductivity (4.43 S m−1), good flexibility and excellent self-healing properties without any external stimuli. The multifunctional hydrogel could self-heal within 3 s at room temperature. It also exhibits an excellent free-shapeable property like clay such that it can be modeled into any different complex geometrical shape as desired. It is expected to have potential applications in many fields such as flexible electronic wearable devices, sensors, rechargeable batteries, and biomaterials.

Graphical abstract: Electroconductive and free-shapeable nanocomposite hydrogels with an ultrafast self-healing property and high stretchability performance

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Jul 2020
Accepted
03 Aug 2020
First published
04 Aug 2020

Soft Matter, 2020,16, 8422-8431

Electroconductive and free-shapeable nanocomposite hydrogels with an ultrafast self-healing property and high stretchability performance

J. Ren, L. Zhao, L. Zhang, X. Wang, Y. Li and W. Yang, Soft Matter, 2020, 16, 8422 DOI: 10.1039/D0SM01233E

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