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Novel, supramolecular, anisotropic hydrogels (called MC-PDGI gels) are presented in this study. These MC-PDGI gels consist of multi-cylindrical lipid bilayers aligned in a uniaxial manner and embedded in a soft hydrogel matrix. The bilayers and the hydrogel interact weakly due to hydrogen bonding. These MC-PDGI gels swell after exposure to water, which causes their volume and diameter to increase...
Tough hydrogels with adjustable stiffness are expected for adapting application as various biomaterials. Oppositely charged polyelectrolytes form tough and self-healing physical polyion-complex (PIC) hydrogels via formation of inter-chain ionic bonds with a wide distribution in bond strength. The strong bonds serve as permanent crosslinking to impart elasticity and the weak bonds as reversible sacrificial...
Tough double network (DN) hydrogels are a kind of interpenetrating network (IPN) gels with a contrasting structure; they consist of a rigid and brittle 1st network with dilute, densely cross-linked short chains and a soft and ductile 2nd network with concentrated, loosely cross-linked long chains. In this work, we focus on how the brittle gel changes into a tough one by increasing the amount of ductile...
The double network (DN) technique, developed by authors’ group, provides an innovative and universal pass way to fabricate hydrogels with super high toughness comparable to rubbers. The excellent mechanical performances of DN hydrogels originate from the specific combination of two networks with contrasting structures. The first brittle network serves as sacrificial bonds, which breaks into small...
Double-network hydrogels (DN-gels) are a new class of crosslinked polymer networks with extraordinary mechanical properties while containing 80–90vol.% water. Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) was applied to investigate the molecular origin of the mechanical properties observed in DN-gels. We present SANS results in both deformed and undeformed conditions for a tough DN-gel made of poly(2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propane...
We report an ATP fueled soft gel machine reconstructed from muscle proteins of actin and myosin. Chemically cross-linked actin gel filaments, several decade times the length of native actin filaments (F-actin) move along a chemically cross-linked myosin fibrous gel (1cm long and 50μm in diameter) with a velocity as high as that of native F-actin, by coupling to ATP hydrolysis. The motility observed...
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