L.C. Fernandes, D.M. Correia, C.M. Costa, S. Lanceros-Mendez
{"title":"Recent Advances in Ionic Liquid-Based Hybrid Materials for Electroactive Soft Actuator Applications","authors":"L.C. Fernandes, D.M. Correia, C.M. Costa, S. Lanceros-Mendez","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400279","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Actuator systems are among the most noteworthy aspects of the rapidly expanding field of smart and multifunctional materials, which is having a substantial impact on a number of application areas. Ionic liquids (ILs) are a particularly relevant option for the development of hybrid materials for actuator applications, because of their simple processing and tailored response. This review work focuses on ionic liquid-based polymer blends for soft actuator applications. The main properties of IL for these applications are highlighted and the state of the art of actuator devices is presented by the type of polymer matrix. Finally, the main conclusions and future trends are presented, in order to properly tailor the characteristics and functional response of IL-blends for actuator applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"310 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slot-Die-Printed Electroactive Polymer Actuators with High-Strain Sensitivity for Soft Robotic Applications","authors":"Duanhao Lu, Ying Yu, Yuxin Zuo, Yong Lv, Tianyu Zhang, You Li, Zhangfeng Zhao","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ionic electroactive polymer gels are widely employed as actuators in soft robotics due to their ability to undergo rapid mechanical deformation under low-voltage. How to improve the performance of the ionic electroactive polymer actuators is always the focus of research in this field. Optimizing the migration of ions within the actuator is crucial for enhancing the actuation performance. In this regard, this study innovatively introduces slot-die-printing technology to fabricate gel actuation layers characterized by high smoothness and uniform particle distribution, achieving seamless integration between the electrodes and gel actuation layers, while mitigating issues associated with ion accumulation due to polymer clustering. Furthermore, this study attempts to add lactic acid to the traditional CS-PVA-IL gel, effectively strengthening the connection between CS and PVA, and promoting smooth ion transport within the gel. The results demonstrate that the actuators prepared in this study achieved a high-bending-strain of 0.35%, with a retention rate of 91% for actuation displacement after 10 000 cycles, showcasing superior actuation performance compared to existing research. The fabrication method proposed in this study is simple and highly reproducible, making it suitable for widespread industrial application, and providing a new approach for future industrial production of soft robotics.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"310 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143602482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert A. Green-Warren, Noah M. McAllister, Parameshwaran Pasupathy, Assimina A. Pelegri, Jonathan P. Singer, N. Sanjeeva Murthy
{"title":"Viscoelastic Properties of Electrospray-Deposited Polymer Shells via Quartz Crystal Microbalance With Dissipation (QCM-D)","authors":"Robert A. Green-Warren, Noah M. McAllister, Parameshwaran Pasupathy, Assimina A. Pelegri, Jonathan P. Singer, N. Sanjeeva Murthy","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400224","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multilayer polymer films are extensively used in multiphase separation. Electrospray deposition (ESD) is an important technique for fabricating such films with tunable morphology. Viscoelastic properties of polystyrene (PS) nanoshell coatings produced by ESD on gold and spin-coated PS surfaces are evaluated using Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation (QCM-D). The thickness of PS films on gold increases with flow rate from ∼200 nm at 0.5 to ∼400 nm at 1.5 mL h<sup>−1</sup>, accompanied by an order-of-magnitude increase in dissipation due to larger particle sizes from shorter droplet flight times. This effect is absent on spin–coated PS films, suggesting the onset of the self-limiting effect of charges. Although the shear moduli for ESD films calculated from Voigt models is only 0.08%–0.20% of the bulk PS modulus, the stiffness ratio of spray-coated PS to a single shell is (5.00–13.3) × 10<sup>3</sup> m<sup>−1</sup>, due to shell–shell and shell–substrate interactions. These are novel results related to the interparticle friction obtained using QCM-D for the first time. This work demonstrates that mechanical properties of particulate viscoelastic films with potential applications in high surface area sensors, such as size-selective membranes for protein or electrolyte adsorption, can be evalauted by QCM-D with nanograms of material.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"309 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142851520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claude Huniade, Jose G. Martinez, Shayan Mehraeen, Edwin W. H. Jager, Tariq Bashir, Nils-Krister Persson
{"title":"Textile Muscle Fibers Made by and for Continuous Production Using Doped Conducting Polymers","authors":"Claude Huniade, Jose G. Martinez, Shayan Mehraeen, Edwin W. H. Jager, Tariq Bashir, Nils-Krister Persson","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400217","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Like skeletal muscles having a fibrous structure, conducting polymers can actuate upon electrical stimulation and can be shaped into fibers. Through textile assembly strategies of such fibers, complex actuating architectures are possible. However, state-of-the-art strategies using short pieces of yarn, which compel manual integration, are not fully taking advantage of textiles. To manufacture actuating textiles that best exploit textile properties like softness and pliability, and to enable production upscaling, a production of continuous, actuating fibers is presented here. These fibers are produced from commercial polyamide 6/6 filaments by first continuously dip-coating in a modified commercial poly(3,4−ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) dispersion before the electropolymerization of polypyrrole (PPy), where the fibers are withdrawn continuously through an electrolyte solution containing the pyrrole monomer. By employing a cyclic dip-coating with individual viscosity, drying temperature, and withdrawal speed for each layer, and by adjusting the tension, speed, and applied potential of the electropolymerization, their isotonic strain is enhanced threefold. Their specific tension, at 400<sup> </sup>µN<sup> </sup>tex<sup>−1</sup>, reaches slightly higher than human skeletal muscle fibers. Furthermore, these continuous actuating fibers produced on the meter are processable in an industrial knitting machine. This study anchors the development of textile muscle fibers for future textile muscles.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"309 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142862382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Gheorghe, S. Díez-Villares, R. Sandu, A. Neacsu, D.-A. Neacsu, A. Serban, A. Botea-Petcu, V. T. Popa, J. Garcia-Fernandez, R. L. López, M. de la Fuente Freire, F. Teodorescu, S. Tanasescu
{"title":"Correction to “PEGylation Effects on the Interaction of Sphingomyelin Nanoemulsions with Serum Albumin: A Thermodynamic Investigation”","authors":"D. Gheorghe, S. Díez-Villares, R. Sandu, A. Neacsu, D.-A. Neacsu, A. Serban, A. Botea-Petcu, V. T. Popa, J. Garcia-Fernandez, R. L. López, M. de la Fuente Freire, F. Teodorescu, S. Tanasescu","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>PEGylation Effects on the Interaction of Sphingomyelin Nanoemulsions with Serum Albumin: A Thermodynamic Investigation. Macromol. Mater. Eng. 2023, 308, 2200622. https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202200622</p><p>In the “Acknowledgements” section, the following acknowledgement was missing: “Horizon 2020 Framework Program Project: 814607 – SAFE-N-MEDTECH.”</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"309 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142439120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tuba Bedir, Dilruba Baykara, Ali Sahin, Ilkay Senel, Elif Kaya, Gulgun Bosgelmez Tinaz, Oguzhan Gunduz, Cem Bulent Ustundag
{"title":"Development of Specially Designed Nanoparticle-coated 3D-printed Gelatin Methacryloyl Patches for Potential Tissue Engineering Applications","authors":"Tuba Bedir, Dilruba Baykara, Ali Sahin, Ilkay Senel, Elif Kaya, Gulgun Bosgelmez Tinaz, Oguzhan Gunduz, Cem Bulent Ustundag","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202400199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tympanic membrane (TM) perforation is a serious ear discomfort that can cause hearing loss and make the middle ear vulnerable to infections. In this study, a unique TM patch is designed to mimic the structure of the natural eardrum for tissue engineering of TM perforations. Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA)-based TM patches are equipped with microneedles (MNs) to better adhere to the perforation site and developed using the digital light processing (DLP) based 3D printing technique. To impart biofunctionality to the 3D-printed patches, their surfaces are coated with gentamicin (GEN) loaded poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) nanoparticles (NPs) using the Electrohydrodynamic Atomization (EHDA) method. The physicochemical characteristics, drug release behaviour, antimicrobial properties and biocompatibility of GelMA, PVA NP-coated GelMA, and GEN@PVA NP-coated GelMA patches are investigated. Morphological analyses confirmed that 3D-printed GelMA patches are fabricated in desired sizes and geometries and successfully coated with NPs. In vitro antibacterial tests revealed that GEN@PVA NP-coated GelMA patches have antibacterial activities against <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> and <i>Escherichia coli</i>. Moreover, in vitro cell culture studies indicated that all GelMA-based patches have no cytotoxic effect on L929 mouse fibroblast cells. Considering all, these specially designed biofunctional 3D-printed GelMA patches can be an effective therapeutic approach for repairing TM perforations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"310 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamta Majd, Merve Gultekinoglu, Cem Bayram, Beren Karaosmanoğlu, Ekim Z. Taşkıran, Didem Kart, Özgür Doğuş Erol, Anthony Harker, Mohan Edirisinghe
{"title":"Biomedical Efficacy of Garlic-Extract-Loaded Core-Sheath Plasters for Natural Antimicrobial Wound Care","authors":"Hamta Majd, Merve Gultekinoglu, Cem Bayram, Beren Karaosmanoğlu, Ekim Z. Taşkıran, Didem Kart, Özgür Doğuş Erol, Anthony Harker, Mohan Edirisinghe","doi":"10.1002/mame.202470017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202470017","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Front Cover</b>: A novel core-sheath fiber structure made using pressurized gyration and where the thin sheath is loaded with garlic (<i>Allium Sativum</i>) eliminates bacteria. This is demonstrated by comparing the top half of the micrograph with the bottom half where the bacteria are virtually absent. The exploitation of natural materials like garlic in this way paves the way for a new generation of economical but very effective and safe wound healing patches. More details can be found in article 2400014 by Mohan Edirisinghe and co-workers.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"309 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202470017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142230948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew Phillips, Muh-Jang Chen, Jong Ryu, Mohammed Zikry
{"title":"Dynamic Behavior of Ribbed Viscoelastic CNT-PDMS Thin-Films for Multifunctional Applications","authors":"Matthew Phillips, Muh-Jang Chen, Jong Ryu, Mohammed Zikry","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400098","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mame.202400098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tailored ribbing structures are obtained by large-scale rolling in polymer PDMS thin-films by adding carbon nanotubes (CNT) inclusions, which significantly improved the mechanical behavior of systems subjected to dynamic compressive strain rates. A nonlinear explicit dynamic three-dimensional finite-element (FE) scheme is used to understand and predict the thermomechanical response of the manufactured ribbed thin-film structures subjected to dynamic in-plane compressive loading. Representative volume element (RVE) FE models of the ribbed thin-films are subjected to strain rates as high as 10<sup>4</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> in both the transverse and parallel ribbing directions. Latin Hypercube Sampling of the microstructural parameters, as informed from experimental observations, provide the microstructurally based RVEs. An interior-point optimization routine is also employed on a regression model trained from the FE predictions that can be used to design ribbed materials for multifunctional applications. The model verifies that damage can be mitigated in CNT-PDMS systems subjected to dynamic compressive loading conditions by controlling the ribbing microstructural characteristics, such as the film thickness and the ribbing amplitude and wavelength. This approach provides a framework for designing materials that can be utilized for applications that require high strain rate damage tolerance, drag reduction, antifouling, and superhydrophobicity.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"309 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142258078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiscale Glass Fiber/Epoxy Nanocomposites Incorporated with Graphene and Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Enhanced Mechanical Properties","authors":"Barshan Dev, Shah Ashiquzzaman Nipu, Md Ashikur Rahman, Khondokar Raihan Mahmud, Maksudur Rahman Riyad, Md Zillur Rahman","doi":"10.1002/mame.202400245","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mame.202400245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study fabricates multiscale glass fiber/epoxy composites by incorporating graphene nanoparticles (GNPs) and zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) to investigate the influences of NPs on the mechanical properties of composites. The composites are manufactured using the compression molding technique with different GNP contents (i.e., 0, 0.5, 1, and 1.5 wt.%), whereas the contents of glass fibers and ZnO NPs remained the same at 40 and 4 wt.%, respectively. Their mechanical properties, chemical compositions, and fracture morphologies are then evaluated. It is found that the mechanical properties of composites improve significantly at a lower content (i.e., 0.5 wt.%) of GNPs and tend to decrease at higher contents (i.e., 1 and 1.5 wt.%). The composite is composed of 0.5 wt.% GNPs exhibit maximum tensile modulus and strength of 6.74 GPa and 230.25 MPa, and flexural modulus and strength of 16.43 GPa and 831.79 MPa, respectively, impact strength of 47.25 kJ m<sup>−2</sup>, and maximum hardness (97.96 Shore D), among all nanocomposites. Moreover, fracture morphologies reveal that composite failure is predominately caused by fiber breakage, fiber-matrix debonding, voids, and GNP agglomeration. The outcomes of this study provide some insights to promote the application of manufactured multiscale composites in the aerospace, automotive, and marine industries.</p>","PeriodicalId":18151,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Materials and Engineering","volume":"310 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mame.202400245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}