,a (郭明雨)
a Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
Polym. Chem. 2014, 5, 4965-4973
Highly stretchable hydrogels based on the micellar copolymerization technique often dissolve in water; they may also become fragile or not exhibit their initially good mechanical performance when submerged in large amounts of water. In addition, the shape-deformation and shape-recovery processes of most reported shape-memory hydrogels need to be carried out at high temperatures. As yet, there have been no published reports on hydrogels which are both highly resilient and have water-responsive shape-memory properties. In this work, a novel, highly elastic polyacrylamide-based hydrogel was developed based on the micellar copolymerization technique using a polymerizable macromolecular micelle with hydrophobic cores locked by hydrogen bonds as a multifunctional crosslinker. The equilibrium water-swelling micelle crosslinked hydrogels still showed highly stretchable behaviour (elongation at break >700%) and even better resilience (almost no hysteresis and residual strains) than the as-prepared hydrogels. Together with the advantages of the highly elastic properties of the hydrogels and the dehydration-induced glass transition of the polyacrylamide network, the hydrogels also have a water-responsive shape-memory behaviour, which can be realized under mild and "green" conditions, i.e., in air and water at room temperature.
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