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Designing fast-response porous hydrogel actuators with improved toughness
Maryam Adavoudi Jolfaei1, Yufeng Zhao2,3, Geoffrey M Spinks1
1School of Mechanical Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. gspinks@uow.edu.au.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 18, 2024
Abstract:
A design concept for porous hydrogel actuators is demonstrated, combining lower critical solution temperature (LCST)-type phase separation with crystallinity formation. In contrast to the existing methods of producing porous hydrogels, our concept could not only generate fast actuation speed, but also greatly enhance the hydrogel tensile strength and toughness.
