ArticleNature communications2020
A mechanically adaptive hydrogel with a reconfigurable network consisting entirely of inorganic nanosheets and water.
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Abstract
Although various biomimetic soft materials that display structural hierarchies and stimuli responsiveness have been developed from organic materials, the creation of their counterparts consisting entirely of inorganic materials presents an attractive challenge, as the properties of such materials generally differ from those of living organisms. Here, we have developed a hydrogel consisting of inorganic nanosheets (14 wt%) and water (86 wt%) that undergoes thermally induced reversible and abrupt changes in its internal structure and mechanical elasticity (23-fold). At room temperature, the nanosheets in water electrostatically repel one another and self-assemble into a long-periodic lamellar architecture with mutually restricted mobility, forming a physical hydrogel. Upon heating above 55 °C, the electrostatic repulsion is overcome by competing van der Waals attraction, and the nanosheets rearrange into an interconnected 3D network of another hydrogel. By doping the gel with a photothermal-conversion agent, the gel-to-gel transition becomes operable spatiotemporally on photoirradiation.
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