{"id":14843,"date":"2018-03-29T06:26:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T06:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2020-05-27T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:02:59","slug":"tougher-than-metal-fibre-reinforced-hydrogels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/tougher-than-metal-fibre-reinforced-hydrogels\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTougher-than-metal\u201d fibre-reinforced hydrogels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><strong>Hokkaido University scientists have developed \u2018fibre-reinforced soft composites\u2019, that are extremely flexible and five times stronger than carbon steel.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14844\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5420.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5420-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly developed fibre-reinforced hydrogel consists of polyampholyte (PA) gels and glass fibre fabric.<br \/>Credit : Hokkaido University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hokkaido University scientists have developed \u2018fibre-reinforced soft composites\u2019, otherwise known as reinforced hydrogels, that are extremely flexible and five times stronger than carbon steel in terms of the energy required to destroy them. The team made the super tough hydrogel by immersing glass fibre fabric in hydrogel precursor solution. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14845\" style=\"width: 1123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1123\" height=\"410\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg 1123w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-768x280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-1024x374.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1123px) 100vw, 1123px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scanning electron microscopy images of the fibre-reinforced hydrogels show the polymer matrix (arrows) filling the interstitial space in the fibre bundles and connecting the neighbouring fibres.<br \/>Credit : Huang Y. et al., Advanced Functional Materials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">They theorize that toughness is increased by dynamic ionic bonds between the glass fibre and hydrogels, and within the hydrogel itself. The reinforced hydrogel could have a wide range of applications in areas where materials are subject to strong load-bearing tensions such as fashion, manufacturing, and artificial ligaments and tendons. The principles used here could be applied to strengthen other soft materials such as rubber.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hokkaido University scientists have developed \u2018fibre-reinforced soft composites\u2019, that are extremely flexible and five times stronger than carbon steel. Hokkaido University scientists have developed \u2018fibre-reinforced soft composites\u2019, otherwise known as reinforced hydrogels, that are extremely flexible and five times stronger than carbon steel in terms of the energy required to destroy them. The team made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",1123,410,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-300x110.jpg",300,110,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-768x280.jpg",750,273,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421-1024x374.jpg",750,274,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",1123,410,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",1123,410,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",1123,410,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",870,318,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",600,219,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",600,219,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",760,277,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",550,201,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",95,35,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",640,234,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",96,35,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5421.jpg",150,55,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}