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Back Cover: Hydrogels from Amorphous Calcium Carbonate and Polyacrylic Acid: Bio‐Inspired Materials for “Mineral Plastics” (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 39/2016)
Author(s) -
Sun Shengtong,
Mao LiBo,
Lei Zhouyue,
Yu ShuHong,
Cölfen Helmut
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201606536
Subject(s) - polyacrylic acid , calcium carbonate , amorphous solid , self healing hydrogels , acrylic acid , amorphous calcium carbonate , materials science , cover (algebra) , chemical engineering , mineral , nanoparticle , carbonate , nanotechnology , polymer science , polymer chemistry , polymer , chemistry , composite material , metallurgy , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , monomer
Mineral plastics may bring new hope to solve current environmental issues, such as “white pollution”. In their Communication on page 11765 ff. H. Cölfen and co‐workers report a bio‐inspired hydrogel material composed of very small amorphous calcium carbonate nanoparticles and poly(acrylic acid). The hydrogel is shapeable and self‐healable like the character “Barbapapa” and can reversibly form macroscopic rigid transparent films upon drying.