Issue 37, 2016
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Chemical Communications

A self-healing hydrogel formation strategy via exploiting endothermic interactions between polyelectrolytes†

Ying Ren,ab   Ruyun Lou,ab   Xiaocen Liu,ab   Meng Gao,ab   Huizhen Zheng,ab   Ting Yang,c   Hongguo Xie,*a   Weiting Yu*a  and  Xiaojun Maa  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Biomedical Materials Engineering, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P. R. China
E-mail: xiehg@dicp.ac.cn, yuwt@dicp.ac.cn

b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

c Energy Research Resources Division, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P. R. China

Abstract

We report a strategy to synthesize self-healing hydrogels via exploiting endothermic interactions between polyelectrolytes. Natural polysaccharides and their derivatives were used to form reversible polyelectrolyte complexes by selecting appropriately charged chemical groups and counterions. This simple and effective method to fabricate self-healing hydrogels will find applications in diverse fields such as surface coating and 3D printing.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC02472F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Mar 2016
Accepted
05 Apr 2016
First published
05 Apr 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6273-6276

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A self-healing hydrogel formation strategy via exploiting endothermic interactions between polyelectrolytes

Y. Ren, R. Lou, X. Liu, M. Gao, H. Zheng, T. Yang, H. Xie, W. Yu and X. Ma, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6273 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02472F

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