Cellulose-mediated ionic liquid crystallization enables tough-stiff switchable ionogels
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Abstract
Nature has inspired to fabricate mechanically switchable materials for applications in various aspects, which is, however, unique but challenging to achieve reversible phase transitions using common ionic liquids in ionogels with ambient temperature-triggered crystallization feature. Here, we develop a tough-stiff switchable ionogel through a reversible solvent crystallization design. Cellulose acts as a chemical regulator, competitively binding with polymers to promote the formation of ionic liquid crystals. This results in a tough ionogel with a bulk toughness of 25.7 MJ m−3 and a fracture toughness of 47.1 kJ m−2, which can switch into a stiff ionogel with a tensile modulus of 134.6 MPa and a compressive modulus of 48.9 MPa. Upon heating, the crystallized ionogel reverts to its unconfined as ionic liquid crystals melt. This phase-driven structural and rigidity transition enables dynamical programming, with rapid, reversible and repeatable shape recovery through heating. Our study demonstrates solvent crystallization in ionogels, offering a strategy for creating intelligent, reconfigurable, and performance-switchable materials with customizable functions. Current ionic liquid-based switchable ionogels rely on fluorinated chemicals and require cooling to low temperatures to induce crystallization. Here, the authors use an ionic liquid to create a cellulose containing ionogel with tough-stiff switchable properties through a reversible room temperature crystallization process.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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