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Hydrogels: A Facile Method to Fabricate Anisotropic Hydrogels with Perfectly Aligned Hierarchical Fibrous Structures (Adv. Mater. 9/2018)
Author(s) -
Mredha Md. Tariful Islam,
Guo Yun Zhou,
oyama Takayuki,
Nakajima Tasuku,
Kurokawa Takayuki,
Gong Jian Ping
Publication year - 2018
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.201870060
Subject(s) - materials science , self healing hydrogels , microscale chemistry , anisotropy , nano , polymer , composite material , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , optics , physics , mathematics education , mathematics
In article number 1704937 , Jian Ping Gong and co‐workers report a bioinspired facile method to fabricate anisotropic hydrogels with perfectly aligned multiscale (from nano‐ to sub‐micro‐ to microscale) hierarchical fibrous structures, similar to those of the collagen fibril structure in tendons and ligaments. The method is fairly general, and includes drying a diluted physical hydrogel consisting of rigid/semi‐rigid polymers in air by confining its length direction.