Bio-inspired mineral fluorescent hydrogels cross-linked by amorphous rare earth carbonates
Jiahua Zhou1, Dongjian Shi, Mingqing Chen
1The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi 214122, China. mqchen@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 16, 2020
Abstract:
The bio-inspired mineral plastic hydrogel based on calcium carbonate and polyacrylic acid has been recently investigated as a promising sustainable material. Here we report that rare earth carbonates can act as cross-linkers to fabricate analogous hydrogels and provide remarkable optical properties.
