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Silicone-based tough hydrogels with high resilience, fast self-recovery, and self-healing properties
Liqi Si1, Xiaowen Zheng1, Jun Nie2
1State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering & Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, P. R. China. zhuxq@mail.buct.edu.cn.
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.
