Ultra-stretchable and crack-resistant nonpolar organogels.

Zhenkai Huang, Jianping Peng, Wei Zhang, Kan Yue, Xun Wang

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Zhenkai Huang *State Key Lab of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Energy and Information Polymer Materials, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

Jianping Peng *State Key Lab of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Energy and Information Polymer Materials, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

Wei ZhangState Key Lab of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Energy and Information Polymer Materials, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

Kan YueState Key Lab of Luminescent Materials and Devices, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Energy and Information Polymer Materials, South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. kanyue@scut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-0279

Xun WangEngineering Research Center of Advanced Rare Earth Materials, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Tsinghua University (Hebei), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. wangxun@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-4450

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22401045, 22471079, 22301037, 22241502, 22035004 and 92461314

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Abstract

The inherent low polarity and weak intermolecular interactions of nonpolar media impose a fundamental thermodynamic constraint on gelation. Despite recent breakthroughs in designing highly stretchable and tough hydrogels, developing organogels that absorb nonpolar organic liquids with comparable mechanical performance has remained elusive. We report an ultra-stretchable and crack-resistant nonpolar organogel engineered through an inorganic nanowire-polymer hybrid network, overcoming the elasticity-strength trade-off. This hybrid network can absorb and gelate diverse nonpolar organic liquids at mass absorption ratios reaching over 35:1. The resultant organogels exhibit outstanding mechanical properties, including breaking elongation up to 1600% and true fracture strength over 1.5 MPa. In addition, through dynamic strain-induced nanowire alignment during tensile deformation, the organogels possess outstanding crack and fatigue resistance (fracture energy up to 1.7 kJ m

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PMID41587972

DOI10.1038/s41467-026-68775-9

PMCPMC12946159

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