Published December 14, 2023
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Bioinspired mechanical mineralization of organogels
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- 1. University of Chicago
Description
Mineralization is a long-lasting method commonly used by biological materials to selectively strengthen in response to site specific mechanical stress. Achieving a similar form of toughening in synthetic polymer composites remains challenging. In previous work, we developed methods to promote chemical reactions via the piezoelectrochemical effect with mechanical responses of inorganic, ZnO nanoparticles. Herein, we report a distinct example of a mechanically-mediated reaction in which the spherical ZnO nanoparticles react themselves leading to the formation of microrods composed of a Zn/S mineral inside an organogel. The microrods can be used to selectively create mineral deposits within the material resulting in the strengthening of the overall resulting composite.
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- DOI
- 10.1038/s41467-023-43733-x
- Other
- oai:uchicago.tind.io:10162
Funding
- U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- COE 5‐29168
- National Science Foundation
- CHE‐1710116
- U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)
- W911NF‐17‐1‐0598 (71524‐CH)
- National Science Foundation
- DMR-2011854