Tough gel: a perfect platform for designing chemo mechano chemically responsive multi functional materials
Abstract
Various smart materials in the form of gel can change shape and size in response to external stimuli such as temperature, light, pH, electric and magnetic fields. However, these sensing and actuations are single route chemo mechanical response. Most gels are intrinsically weak unable to pass enough force onto the macromolecules to induce the inverse feedback of mechano chemical response. The idea of this proposed work is to develop tough gels with improved mechanical integrity and demonstrate its capability as a general platform for creating new dynamic adaptive and autonomous materials with closed loop chemomechano chemical feedbacks, that can be used widely in air force applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 14, 2022
- Source ID
- FA95501910395
Entities
People
- Yuhang Hu
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- United States Air Force