Conductive hydrogel has a vital application prospect in flexible electronic fields such as skin and force sensors. Developing conductive with significant toughness high sensitivity is urgently needed for research. In this work, strong sensitive strain sensor based on demonstrated by introducing MXene (Ti3C2Tx) into the micelle crosslinked polyacrylic acid (PAA)/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):...

Hybrid materials based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polymers, which integrate the unique characters and functions of these two types of components, have shown improved properties and potential applications in many fields. However, the aggregation of CNTs in the polymer matrix is always a big problem in the preparation of composites. It has been proven that using CNT arrays instead of random C...

The objective of the present study is to develop and investigate the swelling behavior of pH-sensitive Superporous Hydrogel (SPH) and SPH composite (SPHC). A novel superporous hydrogel containing poly (methacrylic acid-co-acrylamide) was synthesized from methacrylic acid and acrylamide through the aqueous solution polymerization, using N,N-methylenebisacrylamide as a crosslinker and ammonium pe...

Stimuli-sensitive hydrogel microspheres or microgels are polymeric particles that consist of cross-linked three-dimensional networks. They shrink or swell significantly by expelling or absorbing large amounts of water in response to external stimuli, such as changes in temperature, pH, electric or magnetic fields. The chemical composition of the microgel determines the stimulus that can trigger...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to compare the adhesion capabilities of the most important etiologic agents of microbial ocular infection to the recently available silicone-hydrogel lenses with those to a conventional hydrogel lens. METHODS In vitro static adhesion assays of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 10,145, Staphylococcus epidermidis 9142 (biofilm-positive), and 12,228 (biofilm-negative) t...

abstract turf grass as a main grown cover plant has a unique place in green space planning. in order to study the effect of hydrogel and paclobutrazol on water requirement of turfgrasse (lolium perenne l. barbal) a factorial experiment based on a brcd with 3 replication was conducted in the summer of 2010 in mashhad. the factors under study were 4 levels of hydrogel (0, 3, 6, 9 gr/kg soil), 3 l...

Plasmonic nanostructures are intensely investigated as sensors due to their high sensitivity to changes in their nearest dielectric environment. However, additional steps have to be taken to provide specificity for a particular analyte. Here, gold nanoantennas are coated with a thin layer of a boronic acid functionalized hydrogel, which reversibly swells in the presence of glucose. This process...

Three-dimensional (3D) microperiodic scaffolds of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA) have been fabricated by direct-write assembly of a photopolymerizable hydrogel ink. The ink is initially composed of physically entangled pHEMA chains dissolved in a solution of HEMA monomer, comonomer, photoinitiator and water. Upon printing 3D scaffolds of varying architecture, the ink filaments are ex...