Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels
The adhesion of soft connective tissues (tendons, ligaments, and cartilages) on bones in many animals can maintain high toughness (∽800 J m−2) over millions of cycles of mechanical loads. Such fatigue-resistant adhesion has not been achieved between synthetic hydrogels and engineering materials, but...
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| author | Liu, Ji Lin, Shaoting Liu, Xinyue Qin, Zhao Yang, Yueying Zang, Jianfeng Zhao, Xuanhe |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Liu, Ji Lin, Shaoting Liu, Xinyue Qin, Zhao Yang, Yueying Zang, Jianfeng Zhao, Xuanhe |
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| description | The adhesion of soft connective tissues (tendons, ligaments, and cartilages) on bones in many animals can maintain high toughness (∽800 J m−2) over millions of cycles of mechanical loads. Such fatigue-resistant adhesion has not been achieved between synthetic hydrogels and engineering materials, but is highly desirable for diverse applications such as artificial cartilages and tendons, robust antifouling coatings, and hydrogel robots. Inspired by the nanostructured interfaces between tendons/ligaments/cartilages and bones, we report that bonding ordered nanocrystalline domains of synthetic hydrogels on engineering materials can give a fatigue-resistant adhesion with an interfacial fatigue threshold of 800 J m−2, because the fatigue-crack propagation at the interface requires a higher energy to fracture the ordered nanostructures than amorphous polymer chains. Our method enables fatigue-resistant hydrogel coatings on diverse engineering materials with complex geometries. We further demonstrate that the fatigue-resistant hydrogel coatings exhibit low friction and low wear against natural cartilages. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1300022022-09-30T12:16:24Z Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels Liu, Ji Lin, Shaoting Liu, Xinyue Qin, Zhao Yang, Yueying Zang, Jianfeng Zhao, Xuanhe Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The adhesion of soft connective tissues (tendons, ligaments, and cartilages) on bones in many animals can maintain high toughness (∽800 J m−2) over millions of cycles of mechanical loads. Such fatigue-resistant adhesion has not been achieved between synthetic hydrogels and engineering materials, but is highly desirable for diverse applications such as artificial cartilages and tendons, robust antifouling coatings, and hydrogel robots. Inspired by the nanostructured interfaces between tendons/ligaments/cartilages and bones, we report that bonding ordered nanocrystalline domains of synthetic hydrogels on engineering materials can give a fatigue-resistant adhesion with an interfacial fatigue threshold of 800 J m−2, because the fatigue-crack propagation at the interface requires a higher energy to fracture the ordered nanostructures than amorphous polymer chains. Our method enables fatigue-resistant hydrogel coatings on diverse engineering materials with complex geometries. We further demonstrate that the fatigue-resistant hydrogel coatings exhibit low friction and low wear against natural cartilages. 2021-02-25T16:16:36Z 2021-02-25T16:16:36Z 2020-02 2019-06 2020-08-14T16:30:14Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130002 Liu, Ji et al., "Fatigue-resistant Adhesion of Hydrogels." Nature Communications 11, 1 (February 2020): 1071 ©2020 Authors en https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/S41467-020-14871-3 Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Nature |
| spellingShingle | Liu, Ji Lin, Shaoting Liu, Xinyue Qin, Zhao Yang, Yueying Zang, Jianfeng Zhao, Xuanhe Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| title | Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| title_full | Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| title_fullStr | Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| title_short | Fatigue-resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| title_sort | fatigue resistant adhesion of hydrogels |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130002 |
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