Fabrication of Self-Healable and Patternable Polypyrrole/Agarose Hybrid Hydrogels for Smart Bioelectrodes
- Authors
- Park, Nokyoung; Chae, Seung Chul; Kim, Il Tae; Hur, Jaehyun
- Issue Date
- Feb-2016
- Publisher
- AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
- Keywords
- Hybrid Hydrogel; Pattern; Self-Healing; Smart Bioelectrode
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, v.16, no.2, pp.1400 - 1404
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 16
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 1400
- End Page
- 1404
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/8594
- DOI
- 10.1166/jnn.2016.11972
- ISSN
- 1533-4880
- Abstract
- We present a new class of electrically conductive, mechanically moldable, and thermally self-healable hybrid hydrogels. The hybrid gels consist of polypyrrole and agarose as the conductive component and self-healable matrix, respectively. By using the appropriate oxidizing agent under conditions of mild temperature, the polymerization of pyrrole occurred along the three-dimensional network of the agarose hydrogel matrix. In contrast to most commercially available hydrogels, the physical crosslinking of agarose gel allows for reversible gelation in the case of our hybrid gel, which could be manipulated by temperature variation, which controls the electrical on/off behavior of the hybrid gel electrode. Exploiting this property, we fabricated a hybrid conductive hydrogel electrode which also self-heals thermally. The novel composite material we report here will be useful for many technological and biological applications, especially in reactive biomimetic functions and devices, artificial muscles, smart membranes, smart full organic batteries, and artificial chemical synapses.
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