Issue 4, 2022
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Soft Matter

Construction of a nano-phase-separated structure on a hydrogel surface†

Taihei Nishimoto, ORCID logo a   Takafumi Enomoto, ORCID logo a   Chia-Hsuan Lin,b   Jhih-Guang Wu,b   Caidric Indaya Gupit,c   Xiang Li,d   Shyh-Chyang Luo, ORCID logo b   Aya Mizutani Akimoto ORCID logo *a  and  Ryo Yoshida ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
E-mail: akimoto@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ryo@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

b Department of Material Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

c The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan

d Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan

Abstract

A hydrogel surface with a nano-phase-separated structure was successfully fabricated by grafting a fluorine-containing polymer using activators regenerated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerisation (ARGET ATRP). The modified hydrogel surface exhibits water repellency and high elasticity with maintaining transparency.

Graphical abstract: Construction of a nano-phase-separated structure on a hydrogel surface

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM01659H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Nov 2021
Accepted
31 Dec 2021
First published
12 Jan 2022

Soft Matter, 2022,18, 722-725

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Construction of a nano-phase-separated structure on a hydrogel surface

T. Nishimoto, T. Enomoto, C. Lin, J. Wu, C. I. Gupit, X. Li, S. Luo, A. M. Akimoto and R. Yoshida, Soft Matter, 2022, 18, 722 DOI: 10.1039/D1SM01659H

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