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ArticleJournal of materials chemistry. B2025

Photodegradable polyacrylamide tanglemers enable spatiotemporal control over chain lengthening in high-strength and low-hysteresis hydrogels.

Joshua S Lee, Bruce E Kirkpatrick, Abhishek P Dhand, Lea Pearl Hibbard, Benjamin R Nelson, Nathaniel P Skillin, Makayla C Johnson, Dilara Batan, Benjamin D Fairbanks, Timothy J White and 3 more

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Article in Journal of materials chemistry. B, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Precision Photochemistry: Every Photon Counts.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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13 authors.

Joshua S LeeDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.
Bruce E KirkpatrickDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2862-3843
Abhishek P DhandDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1470-1081
Lea Pearl HibbardDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.
Benjamin R NelsonDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.
Nathaniel P SkillinDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1424-9037
Makayla C JohnsonDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.ORCID 0009-0001-1880-0335
Dilara BatanBioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA.
Benjamin D FairbanksDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.
Timothy J WhiteDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.
Christopher N BowmanDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8458-7723
Jason A BurdickDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2006-332X
Kristi S AnsethDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA. kristi.anseth@colorado.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5725-5691

Funding

Synthetic hydrogels to study formation and maintenance of intestinal cryptsR01DK120921 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI KRISTI S. ANSETH, PETER J DEMPSEY · 2019 to 2026
$3.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK120921
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covalent hydrogel networks suffer from a stiffness-toughness conflict, where increased crosslinking density enhances the modulus of the material but also leads to embrittlement and diminished extensibility. Recently, strategies have been developed to form highly entangled hydrogels, colloquially referred to as tanglemers, by optimizing polymerization conditions to maximize the density and length of polymer chains and minimize the crosslinker concentration. It is challenging to assess entanglements in crosslinked networks beyond approximating their theoretical contribution to mechanical properties; thus, in this work, we synthesize and characterize polyacrylamide tanglemers using a photolabile crosslinker, which allows for direct assessment of covalent trapping of entanglements under tension. Further, this chemistry allows tuning of the modulus

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Acrylic ResinsHydrogelsCross-Linking ReagentsPhotolysisPolyacrylamidesTensile StrengthAcrylic ResinsCross-Linking ReagentsHydrogelsPolyacrylamides

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PMID39648868
PMCPMC11626382

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