Citation: Duan Zhi-Qiang, Zhong Ming, Shi Fu-Kuan, Xie Xu-Ming. Transparent h-BN/polyacrylamide nanocomposite hydrogels with enhanced mechanical properties[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2016, 27(9): 1490-1494. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2016.04.002 shu

Transparent h-BN/polyacrylamide nanocomposite hydrogels with enhanced mechanical properties

Laboratory of Advanced Materials(MOE), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Corresponding author: Xie Xu-Ming, xxm-dce@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Received Date: 17 March 2016
Revised Date: 27 March 2016
Accepted Date: 1 April 2016
Available Online: 12 September 2016

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In this study, a facile way has been proposed to prepare transparent, tough and flexible polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogels which is composed of a dually crosslinked single network by chemical crosslinking of N, N'-methylenebisacrylamide (BIS) and physical crosslinking of hydrophilic hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets. The resulting h-BN/PAM nanocomposite hydrogels are highly transparent, and exhibit significantly enhanced mechanical properties compared to the dark (GO)/PAM nanocomposite hydrogels or chemical crosslinking PAM hydrogels. Thus it opens up new opportunities for developing nextgeneration transparent, tough and flexible hydrogels that hold great promise in such important applications as light responsive soft robot and liquid microlenses.
- Hexagonal boron nitride,
- Polyacrylamide,
- Nanocomposite hydrogels,
- Mechanical properties,
- Transparency
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