Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels

Ji Liu; Shaoting Lin; Xinyue Liu; Zhao Qin; Yueying Yang; Jianfeng Zang; Xuanhe Zhao

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14871-3

Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels

Ji Liu,
Shaoting Lin,
Xinyue Liu,
Zhao Qin,
Yueying Yang,
Jianfeng Zang,
Xuanhe Zhao

Affiliations

Ji Liu: Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
Shaoting Lin: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xinyue Liu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zhao Qin: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University
Yueying Yang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jianfeng Zang: School of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Xuanhe Zhao: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14871-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Fatigue-resistant adhesion is of interest for a range of applications, but has been limited in synthetic hydrogels. Here, the authors report on a synthetic hydrogel with ordered nanocrystalline domains resulting in high fatigue-resistant adhesion and demonstrate the coating of different surfaces.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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