Fatigue Damage–Resistant Physical Hydrogel Adhesion

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

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Canhui Yang¹  Wei Hong²  Qi Li³  Luochang Wang⁴  Qihan Liu⁴ 

[1] Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China;

[2] Global Station for Soft Matter, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan;

[3] State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, The Beijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology (BIC-ESAT), College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China;

[4] Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;

关键词: hydrogel;    adhesion;    fatigue damage resistance;    hydrogen bond;    wrinkle;   

DOI  :  10.3389/frobt.2021.666343

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Strong adhesion between hydrogels and various engineering surfaces has been achieved; yet, achieving fatigue-resistant hydrogel adhesion remains challenging. Here, we examine the fatigue of a specific type of hydrogel adhesion enabled by hydrogen bonds and wrinkling and show that the physical interactions–based hydrogel adhesion can resist fatigue damage. We synthesize polyacrylamide hydrogel as the adherend and poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylamide) hydrogel as the adhesive. The adherend and the adhesive interact via hydrogen bonds. We further introduce wrinkles at the interface by biaxially prestretching and then releasing the adherends and perform butt-joint tests to probe the adhesion performance. Experimental results reveal that the samples with a wrinkled interface resist fatigue damage, while the samples with a flat interface fail in ~9,000 cycles at stress levels of 70 and 63% peak stresses in static failure. The endurance limit of the wrinkled-interface samples is comparable to the peak stress of the flat-interface samples. Moreover, we find that the nearly perfectly elastic polyacrylamide hydrogel also suffers fatigue damage, which limits the fatigue life of the wrinkled-interface samples. When cohesive failure ensues, the evolutions of the elastic modulus of wrinkled-interface samples and hydrogel bulk, both in satisfactory agreements with the predictions of damage accumulation theory, are alike. We observe similar behaviors in different material systems with polyacrylamide hydrogels with different water contents. This work proves that physical interactions can be engaged in engineering fatigue-resistant adhesion between soft materials such as hydrogels.

【 授权许可】

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