Bioinspired Mechanical Mineralization of Organogels

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Dec 14

PMID 38097549

Authors

Jorge Ayarza

Jun Wang

Hojin Kim

Pin-Ruei Huang

Britteny Cassaidy

Gangbin Yan

Chong Liu

Heinrich M Jaeger

Stuart J Rowan

Aaron P Esser-Kahn

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Abstract

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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