Silver-decorated MXene nanosheets as a radical initiator for polymerization and multifunctional hydrogels

Jianqiang Meng; Jiasheng Luo; Hongyang Wang; Yongwang Quan; Juan Li; Xiaoyi Sun

doi:10.1039/d2cc00504b

Silver-decorated MXene nanosheets as a radical initiator for polymerization and multifunctional hydrogels

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jun 14;58(48):6821-6824. doi: 10.1039/d2cc00504b.

Authors

Jianqiang Meng¹, Jiasheng Luo¹, Hongyang Wang¹, Yongwang Quan¹, Juan Li¹, Xiaoyi Sun¹

Affiliation

¹ Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Micro & Nano Materials Interface Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China. juanli@csu.edu.cn.

PMID: 35615963
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc00504b

Abstract

Silver nanoparticle-decorated multilayered titanium carbide MXene (Ag/Ti₃C₂T_x) itself is capable of initiating the polymerization of a variety of acrylic monomers, due to it being able to generate hydroxyl radicals via the pseudo-Fenton reaction. Furthermore, double-network hydrogel Ag/Ti₃C₂T_x@gelatin/PAAm is synthesized by a one-pot procedure and displays a good near-infrared light-triggered shape-memory performance.