Perspectives on recent advancements in energy harvesting, sensing and bio-medical applications of piezoelectric gels

T Vijayakanth, S Shankar, G Finkelstein-Zuta… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of next-generation bioelectronics, as well as the powering of consumer
and medical devices, require power sources that are soft, flexible, extensible, and even …

Design principles for strong and tough hydrogels

X Li, JP Gong - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks swollen with water. Owing to their soft and
water-containing nature, hydrogels are promising materials for applications in many fields …

Additive manufacturing of highly entangled polymer networks

AP Dhand, MD Davidson, HM Zlotnick, TJ Kolibaba… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Incorporation of polymer chain entanglements within a single network can synergistically
improve stiffness and toughness, yet attaining such dense entanglements through vat …

Low‐Hysteresis and Tough Ionogels via Low‐Energy‐Dissipating Cross‐Linking

B Sun, K Liu, B Wu, S Sun, P Wu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐hysteresis merits can help polymeric gel materials survive from consecutive loading
cycles and promote life span in many burgeoning areas. However, it is a big challenge to …

Self-compliant ionic skin by leveraging hierarchical hydrogen bond association

H Ye, B Wu, S Sun, P Wu - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Robust interfacial compliance is essential for long-term physiological monitoring via skin-
mountable ionic materials. Unfortunately, existing epidermal ionic skins are not compliant …

Extremely Tough, Stretchable Gel Electrolytes with Strong Interpolymer Hydrogen Bonding Prepared Using Concentrated Electrolytes to Stabilize Lithium‐Metal …

R Tamate, Y Peng, Y Kamiyama… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extremely tough and stretchable gel electrolytes, which can be prepared by leveraging the
strong interpolymer hydrogen bonding in concentrated lithium (Li)‐salt electrolytes, are …

Bicontinuous vitrimer heterogels with wide-span switchable stiffness-gated iontronic coordination

Z Zhao, Z Cao, Z Wu, W Du, X Meng, H Chen, Y Wu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Currently, it remains challenging to balance intrinsic stiffness with programmability in most
vitrimers. Simultaneously, coordinating materials with gel-like iontronic properties for …

Circular Polydiketoenamine Elastomers with Exceptional Creep Resistance via Multivalent Cross-Linker Design

EA Dailing, P Khanal, AR Epstein… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Elastomers are widely used in textiles, foam, and rubber, yet they are rarely recycled due to
the difficulty in deconstructing polymer chains to reusable monomers. Introducing reversible …

Synergistic effect of dual hydrogen-donor deep eutectic solvent for performance improvement of fracturing-oil expulsion fluids

X Wang, M Zhao, X Wang, P Liu, M Fan, X Yan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Petroleum remains the main source of energy consumption over the past decade. The
development of rich unconventional oil reservoirs is a huge challenge. Clean fracturing …

Recent advances in the construction and application of stretchable PEDOT smart electronic membranes

J Chen, C Ye, T Cang, R Gao, X Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Conductive polymer poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)(PEDOT) has shown great potential
for application in optoelectronic devices, sensors, and biomedicine. Flexible and stretchable …