ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2026
Ultrastrong and Tough Anisotropic Organogel via Alignment-Induced Densification and Glycerol Plasticization.
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Polymer gels, such as hydrogel and organogel, are widely used in tissue engineering, biomedicine, and flexible electronic devices due to their good compatibility and environmental stability. However, it is still a great challenge to achieve simultaneous high strength, toughness, and elongation to meet the demands of different applications. Herein, this work proposes a strategy involving freeze-thawing, stretch-drying and thermal annealing in glycerol to fabricate ultrastrong and tough polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) organogel with anisotropic microstructure. Freeze-thawing cycles push PVA chains together through the formation of ice crystals, facilitating the entanglement of polymer chains and the formation of hydrogen bond network. Directional stretch-drying process induces molecular chain orientation and enhances the intermolecular interactions. Thermal annealing (TA) in glycerol promotes chain rearrangement and densifies the cross-linking of hydrogen bond network, which synergistically enhances strength and toughness. The prepared anisotropic PVA organogel exhibits extraordinary toughness of 416
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