A hierarchical system of covalent and dual non-covalent crosslinks promotes the toughness and self-healing properties of polymer hydrogels

Abstract

While it is challenging to simultaneously achieve both high mechanical performance and self-healing ability within one polymer hydrogel network, we, herein, synthesized a novel class of hydrogels based on a...

Poly(hexamethylene biguanide) hydrochloride (PHMB)-based materials: synthesis, modification, properties, determination, and application

“…Hydrogel has garnered considerable advance in diverse areas over the past few decades. [151][152][153][154] PHMB can also be used to fabricate hydrogels, which have gained tremendous attention in recent years owing to their fantastic biocompatibility, biodegradability, hydrophilicity, etc. [155][156][157][158][159] PHMB hydrogels have been applied in diverse areas such as drug delivery systems for sustained delivery purposes.…”

High strength, self-healing sensitive ionogel sensor based on MXene/ionic liquid synergistic conductive network for human-motion detection

“…However, it suffers from slow healing, non-repeatable healing and a complex fabrication process. 30 In contrast, intrinsic self-healing is based on reversible interactions such as hydrogen bonding, 31 π–π superposition, 32 ionic bonding, 33 etc. It has the advantages of short self-healing time, multiple reversible self-healing, and simple preparation process.…”