Stretchable, Self-Healing, and Bioactive Hydrogel with High-Functionality N,N'-bis(acryloyl)cystamine Dynamically Bonded Ag@polydopamine Crosslinkers for Wearable Sensors.

Adv Sci (Weinh)

Key Laboratory of Human-Machine-Intelligence Synergic System, Research Center for Neural Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1068 Xueyuan Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.

Published: September 2024

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  • Hydrogels are advantageous for creating flexible sensors due to their soft texture and adjustable chemical properties, although challenges remain in achieving the right combination of mechanical and conductive traits for practical use.
  • A new type of hydrogel sensor, named PAM/BA-Ag@PDA, is developed by polymerizing acrylamide with dynamic crosslinked silver-modified polydopamine nanoparticles, enhancing its strength, conductivity, and self-healing capabilities.
  • This hydrogel functions effectively as a strain sensor, showing good sensitivity, rapid response time, and stability while being able to adhere to skin to monitor various movements, making it suitable for wearable healthcare applications.*

Article Abstract

Hydrogels present attractive opportunities as flexible sensors due to their soft nature and tunable physicochemical properties. Despite significant advances, practical application of hydrogel-based sensor is limited by the lack of general routes to fabricate materials with combination of mechanical, conductive, and biological properties. Here, a multi-functional hydrogel sensor is reported by in situ polymerizing of acrylamide (AM) with N,N'-bis(acryloyl)cystamine (BA) dynamic crosslinked silver-modified polydopamine (PDA) nanoparticles, namely PAM/BA-Ag@PDA. Compared with traditional polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogel, the BA-Ag@PDA nanoparticles provide both high-functionality crosslinks and multiple interactions within PAM networks, thereby endowing the optimized PAM/BA-Ag@PDA hydrogel with significantly enhanced tensile/compressive strength (349.80 kPa at 383.57% tensile strain, 263.08 kPa at 90% compressive strain), lower hysteresis (5.2%), improved conductivity (2.51 S m) and excellent near-infrared (NIR) light-triggered self-healing ability. As a strain sensor, the PAM/BA-Ag@PDA hydrogel shows a good sensitivity (gauge factor of 1.86), rapid response time (138 ms), and high stability. Owing to abundant reactive groups in PDA, the PAM/BA-Ag@PDA hydrogel exhibits inherent tissue adhesiveness and antioxidant, along with a synergistic antibacterial effect by PDA and Ag. Toward practical applications, the PAM/BA-Ag@PDA hydrogel can conformally adhere to skin and monitor subtle activities and large-scale movements with excellent reliability, demonstrating its promising applications as wearable sensors for healthcare.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11425271PMC
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Stretchable, Self-Healing, and Bioactive Hydrogel with High-Functionality N,N'-bis(acryloyl)cystamine Dynamically Bonded Ag@polydopamine Crosslinkers for Wearable Sensors.

Adv Sci (Weinh)

September 2024

Key Laboratory of Human-Machine-Intelligence Synergic System, Research Center for Neural Engineering, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1068 Xueyuan Road, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.

Article Synopsis
  • Hydrogels are advantageous for creating flexible sensors due to their soft texture and adjustable chemical properties, although challenges remain in achieving the right combination of mechanical and conductive traits for practical use.
  • A new type of hydrogel sensor, named PAM/BA-Ag@PDA, is developed by polymerizing acrylamide with dynamic crosslinked silver-modified polydopamine nanoparticles, enhancing its strength, conductivity, and self-healing capabilities.
  • This hydrogel functions effectively as a strain sensor, showing good sensitivity, rapid response time, and stability while being able to adhere to skin to monitor various movements, making it suitable for wearable healthcare applications.*
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