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Hydrogels totally from inorganic nanosheets and water with mechanical robustness, self-healing, controlled lubrication and anti-corrosion

Yi Yang1,2,§, Hong Sun3,§, Bo Zhang2, Lulin Hu2, Lu Xu1,2( ), Jingcheng Hao2,4( )
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing, Yantai 264000, China
School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Tai’an 271016, China
Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry & Key Laboratory of Special Aggregated Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

§ Yi Yang and Hong Sun contributed equally to this work.

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We report a hydrogel having mechanical strength, self-healing, lubrication and anti-corrosion solely consisting of aluminium hydroxide nanosheets and water. The gel properties can be optimized by controlling the selfassembled superstructure of the nanosheets.

Abstract

Synthetic hydrogels with attractive mechanical strength and self-healing are particular appealing, in light of their significance and prospects in industrial, engineering and biomimetic fields. Fabricating various mechanically robust and self-healable hydrogels have achieved some successes in using strong covalently bonded organic polymers as building blocks. However, creation of such soft materials entirely building on rigid inorganic components remains greatly challenging, because inorganic materials are usually poorly flexible and processable. In this study, mechanical robustness and self-recovery are successfully integrated into a single-component colloidal hydrogel system of aluminium hydroxide nanosheets (AHNSs). The inorganic colloidal hydrogel gains an excellent elasticity and stiffness, as indicated by its elastic modulus >10 MPa, due to the use of tough AHNS gelator and the formation of long-range ordered lamellar architectures consisting of self-assembled side-to-side or interlaced-stacking NS superstructures. The metastability in internal gel network endows the hydrogel a self-healing efficiency of larger than 100%. The AHNS hydrogel has been demonstrated to be effectively lubricative and anti-corrosive. Its mechanical, tribological and anti-corrosion properties can be optimized by tuning its internal NS configuration and salt content. Our study may be a potent replenishment to the scope of materials science and may provide new insights into nanotechnology, colloidal chemistry, green tribology and mechanical engineering.

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hydrogelsinorganic nanosheetsmechanical robustnessself-healingcontrolled lubrication and anti-corrosionself-assembled superstructures

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 1,
January 2023
Pages 1533-1544
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4730-7
Cite this article:
Yang Y, Sun H, Zhang B, et al. Hydrogels totally from inorganic nanosheets and water with mechanical robustness, self-healing, controlled lubrication and anti-corrosion. Nano Research, 2023, 16(1): 1533-1544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4730-7
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Received: 13 May 2022
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