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Highly Flexible and Resilient Elastin Hybrid Cryogels with Shape Memory, Injectability, Conductivity, and Magnetic Responsive Properties
Author(s) -
Liu Yuqing,
Xu Kaige,
Chang Qiang,
Darabi Mohammad Ali,
Lin Bojie,
Zhong Wen,
Xing Malcolm
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201601066
Subject(s) - materials science , elastin , conductivity , shape memory alloy , polypyrrole , nanoparticle , magnetic nanoparticles , composite material , elasticity (physics) , flexibility (engineering) , nanotechnology , polymer , medicine , chemistry , statistics , mathematics , pathology , polymerization
A strategy utilizing elastin peptide macroporous cryogels to build highly flexible scaffolds to load carbon nanotubes, polypyrrole, and iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles, is presented. This combines high elasticity, flexibility, shape memory property, and injectable property together with conductivity and/or magnetic responsive property. The network can afford 97.5% compressive strain with an excellent conductivity of 50.1 ± 2.9 S cm −1 at 90% strain.