ArticleTribology letters2021
Controlling the Friction of Gels by Regulating Interfacial Oxygen During Polymerization.
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- Toward Cartilage-Mimicking Biomaterials: Biotribological, Biochemical and Structural Evaluation of pHEMA and PVA-Based Hydrogels.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Biomimetic pHEMA Hydrogels as an Alternative Cartilage-like Model Material for Biotribological Evaluations.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Crosslinking substrate regulates frictional properties of tissue-engineered cartilage and chondrocyte response to loading.Communications materials · 2025Article
- Bioinspired Lubricity from Surface Gel Layers.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2024Article
- Designing Superlubricious Hydrogels from Spontaneous Peroxidation Gradients.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2023Article
- Oxygen inhibition of free-radical polymerization is the dominant mechanism behind the "mold effect" on hydrogels.Soft matter · 2021Article
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Abstract
Hydrogel surfaces are of great interest in applications ranging from cell scaffolds and transdermal drug-delivery patches to catheter coatings and contact lenses. In this work, we propose a method to control the surface structure of hydrogels, thereby tailoring their frictional properties. The method is based on oxygen inhibition of the free-radical polymerization reaction during synthesis and enables (i) control of friction over more than an order in magnitude and (ii) spatial control of friction as either a continuous gradient or a distinct pattern. The presented method has successfully been applied to acrylamide-, diacrylate- and methacrylate-based gels, illustrating the universality of the presented method, and its potential use in the above-mentioned applications.
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