Thermo-Responsive and Electroconductive Nano Au-PNiPAAm Hydrogel Nanocomposites: Influence of Synthesis Method and Nanoparticle Shape on Physicochemical Properties

Nikolina Radojković, Jelena Spasojević, Zorica Kačarević-Popović, Una Stamenović, Vesna Vodnik, Goran Roglić, Aleksandra Radosavljević · 2024

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Nikolina Radojkovic and co-authors make and test soft gels laced with tiny gold bits, in work from twenty twenty-four. The gels react to heat and can carry electric charge. Such dual traits could suit sensors, medical tools, and other small devices. The team varies two things: how the gels are made, and whether the gold bits are round balls or thin rods.

One route builds the gel first with radiation, then forms the gold inside it. The other route makes the gold first, then forms the gel around it. Light tests confirm both shapes form and stay stable in the gel. The gels swell well and switch charge flow on and off with heat. Flow snaps back when the gel cools, and the rod form conducts best of all.

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CREATORNikolina Radojković, Jelena Spasojević, Zorica Kačarević-Popović, Una Stamenović, Vesna Vodnik, Goran Roglić, Aleksandra Radosavljević
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE55 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11644651

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