Covalent Cross-Linked Polymer Gels with Reversible Sol-Gel Transition and Self-Healing Properties
Covalent Cross-Linked Polymer Gels with Reversible Sol-Gel Transition and Self-Healing Properties
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具有可逆溶胶-凝胶转变和自修复特性的共价交联聚合物凝胶
DOI:
10.1021/ma9022197
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发表时间:
2010-02-09
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Chen, Yongming
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作者:
Deng, Guohua;Tang, Chuanmei;Chen, Yongming
Introduction. Covalent and reversible noncovalent interactions are two basic cross-linking forces to form threedimensional networks in polymer gels. Accordingly, polymer gels can be defined as chemical gels or physical gels, respectively. 1r3 The networks based on covalent bonds in chemical gels are stable under ambient conditions owing to their robust and irreversible natures of the covalent bonds. Although a chemical gel can dramatically change its volume by swelling or deswelling its permanent network in response to stimuli, it cannot be transformed into its starting polymer (monomer) solution. 4r6 In contrast, the supramolecular networks based on noncovalent interactions in physical gels are susceptible to the external environment. It is easy for a physical gel to perform a solrgel transition in response to temperature, pH and solvent. 7, 8 In this sense, a physical gel is smarter than a chemical gel. Integrating the stimuli-responsibility of the physical gels and stability of the chemical gels into a single system to yield a robust but smart gel is still a challenge.Dynamic covalent chemistry9 offers an appealing prospect of constructing such materials. It employs reversible covalent bonds instead of noncovalent interactions to prepare products. By adjusting the thermodynamic controlled reactions involving such reversible covalent bonds, distribution or constitution of the products and their properties can be tuned. Consequently, the products are smart as supramolecular entities in response to external stimuli, but they are more stable than the supramolecular ones due to the strong nature of the reversible covalent bonds. 10r12 As one of the dynamic covalent bonds, acylhydrazone bond has been successfully used by Lehn and co-workers to prepare dynamic covalent polymers. Polyacylhydrazones, the so-called dynamers, 10, 11 could exchange their components with outside monomers and incorporated them into the original polymers. 13, 14 Taking advantage of this exchange, the mechanical properties15 or the color and fluorescence16 of the original dynamers can be modified. Very recently, glycodynamers bearing side saccharide moieties were reported by the same group. 17 All these dynamers were linear or branched, however, cross-linked networks based on acylhydrazone bonds and their dynamic properties in a gel have not been reported so far.