Elastoplastic behavior of anisotropic, physically crosslinked hydrogel networks comprising stiff, charged fibrils in an electrolyte

• Main Authors: Östmans, Rebecca, Cortes Ruiz, Maria F., Rostami, Jowan, Sellman, Farhiya Alex, Wågberg, Lars, Lindström, Stefan B., Benselfelt, Tobias
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Cellulose Nanofibrils; Adsorption
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170624
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Fibrillar hydrogels are remarkably stiff, low-density networks that can hold vast amounts of water. These hydrogels can easily be made anisotropic by orienting the fibrils using different methods. Unlike the detailed and established descriptions of polymer gels, there is no coherent theoretical fram...