title: An Electrically and Mechanically Autonomic Self-healing Hybrid Hydrogel with Tough and Thermoplastic Properties.
abstract: Conductive hydrogels are a class of composite materials that usually comprise hydrated polymers and conductive materials. Practical application requires the conductive hydrogels to have various properties such as high conductivity, toughness, self-healing, facile processing ability, and so on. Although challenging to have all the above-mentioned properties, a composite material composed of polymer hydrogel with embedded Au nanoparticles (i.e., P(NaSS)/P(VBIm-Cl)/PVA@Au) was found to show the comprehensive properties above in this paper. For example, P(NaSS)/P(VBIm-Cl)/PVA@Au exhibits mechanical and electrical self-healing properties at ambient conditions. In addition, P(NaSS)/P(VBIm-Cl)/PVA@Au is tough and thermoplastic, potentially making it useful for a variety of applications.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou 730070, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-7903
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou 730070, China.
authors.forename: Caiyun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou 730070, China.
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou 730070, China.
authors.forename: Yunlei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou 730070, China.
authors.forename: Liqin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Bioelectrochemistry and Environmental Analysis of Gansu, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University , Lanzhou 730070, China.
authors.forename: Wu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
keywords: conductive hydrogel; dual network; self-healing; thermoplastic; toughness