Preparation and performance of high-strength wood-based composite hydrogels with double network structures
The wood was used as raw material to obtain the wood skeleton by matrix-removal.And the high-strength wood-based composite hydrogels with PVA/PAM double network structure were constructed by in-situ polymerization.The change rules of macro/micro functional morphological characteristics,mechanical properties,optical properties and chemical composition of the wood-based composite hydrogels were systematically investigated by adjusting the mass ratio of PVA and PAM in the hydrogel system.The results show that introducing a small amount of PVA into the PAM/wood skeleton composite hydrogels and constructing a double network structure can effectively enhanced the mechanical properties of the wood-based composite hydrogels.As a result,the wood-based composite hydrogels show tensile properties with a maximum tensile strength and fracture elongation of 16.47 MPa and 11.61%.Furthermore,the wood-based composite hydrogel is used as a flexible substrate with a conductivity of 1.8 S/m to assemble and build sensor components.The results indicate that the flexible sensor exhibits stable and repeatable relative current signal changes under a variety of deformations.