One-step mild preparation of tough and thermo-reversible poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels induced by small molecules
Chuang Dong1, Jiahua Zhou, Dongjian Shi
1The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China. mqchen@jiangnan.edu.cn daisaku@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 20, 2021
Abstract:
To overcome shortcomings of the traditional freeze-thaw method for PVA hydrogel preparation, we develop a one-step mild method, which induces PVA crystallization to form hydrogels through small molecules containing hydroxyl and carboxyl groups. The obtained hydrogels showed high mechanical properties, untypical plasticity with short gelation time and repeatable sol-gel transformation.
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