Self-Healing and Self-Recovering Hydrogels

✍ Scribed by Costantino Creton, Oguz Okay

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Series: Advances in Polymer Science 285
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume covers experimental and theoretical advances on the relationship between composition, structure and macroscopic mechanical properties of novel hydrogels containing dynamic bonds. The chapters of this volume focus on the control of the mechanical properties of several recently discovered gels with the design of monomer composition, chain architecture, type of crosslinking or internal structure. The gels discussed in the different chapters have in common the capability to dissipate energy upon deformation, a desired property for mechanical toughness, while retaining the ability to recover the properties of the virgin material over time or to self-heal when put back in contact after fracture. Some chapters focus on the synthesis and structural aspects while others focus on properties or modelling at the continuum or mesoscopic scale. The volume will be of interest to chemists and material scientists by providing guidelines and general structure-property considerations to synthesize and develop innovative gels tuned for applications. In addition it will provide physicists with a better understanding of the role of weak interactions between molecules and physical crosslinking on macroscopic dissipative properties and self-healing or self-recovering properties.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Dual Crosslink Hydrogels with Metal-Ligand Coordination Bonds: Tunable Dynamics and Mechanics Under Large Deformation (Jingwen Zhao, Tetsuharu Narita, Costantino Creton)....Pages 1-20
How to Design Both Mechanically Strong and Self-Healable Hydrogels? (Oguz Okay)....Pages 21-62
Rheology, Rupture, Reinforcement and Reversibility: Computational Approaches for Dynamic Network Materials (Chiara Raffaelli, Anwesha Bose, Cyril H. M. P. Vrusch, Simone Ciarella, Theodoros Davris, Nicholas B. Tito et al.)....Pages 63-126
Mechanics of Polymer Networks with Dynamic Bonds (Qiang Guo, Rong Long)....Pages 127-164
Hydrophobically Associating Hydrogels with Microphase-Separated Morphologies (Bryan D. Vogt, R. A. Weiss)....Pages 165-209
Triblock Copolymer Micelle-Crosslinked Hydrogels (Jun Fu)....Pages 211-241
Self-Healing Hydrogels Based on Reversible Covalent Linkages: A Survey of Dynamic Chemical Bonds in Network Formation (Ruveyda Kilic, Amitav Sanyal)....Pages 243-294
Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels from Polyampholytes (Tao Lin Sun, Kunpeng Cui)....Pages 295-317
Dynamics in Cellulose-Based Hydrogels with Reversible Cross-Links (Changyou Shao, Jun Yang)....Pages 319-354
Self-Healing Collagen-Based Hydrogel for Brain Injury Therapy (Raquel de la Cruz, David Díaz Díaz)....Pages 355-378
Back Matter ....Pages 379-380

✦ Subjects

Chemistry; Polymer Sciences; Materials Engineering; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Biomaterials; Medicinal Chemistry