Constructing an information storage or communication system, where countless pieces of information canbe hidden like a canvas and revealed on demand throughspecific stimuli or decoding rules, is significant. In the pr...Constructing an information storage or communication system, where countless pieces of information canbe hidden like a canvas and revealed on demand throughspecific stimuli or decoding rules, is significant. In the presentstudy, we developed a hydrogel canvas that leverages noncovalentinteractions to induce phase separation in the polymer matrix, creating various “paintings”, including custommessages, using different chemical inks. Our strategy focuseson designing small molecule inks, with varying affinities withthe hydrogel and specific responsiveness to stimuli, to achievemultiple changes such as color shifts, fluorescence emission,and dynamic optical image evolution. This skips the typicaldesign approaches, such as incorporating responsive fluorophoresinto polymers for color emission through grafting orcopolymerization, and thus avoids the complex processes involved in modifying and synthesizing functional polymers,along with the uncertainties in material properties that theseprocesses bring.展开更多
基金financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)le Fonds de recherche du Quebec: Nature et technologies (FRQNT)+1 种基金The Centre Québécois sur les Matériaux Fonctionnels (CQMF)FRQNT and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for awarding scholarships。
文摘Constructing an information storage or communication system, where countless pieces of information canbe hidden like a canvas and revealed on demand throughspecific stimuli or decoding rules, is significant. In the presentstudy, we developed a hydrogel canvas that leverages noncovalentinteractions to induce phase separation in the polymer matrix, creating various “paintings”, including custommessages, using different chemical inks. Our strategy focuseson designing small molecule inks, with varying affinities withthe hydrogel and specific responsiveness to stimuli, to achievemultiple changes such as color shifts, fluorescence emission,and dynamic optical image evolution. This skips the typicaldesign approaches, such as incorporating responsive fluorophoresinto polymers for color emission through grafting orcopolymerization, and thus avoids the complex processes involved in modifying and synthesizing functional polymers,along with the uncertainties in material properties that theseprocesses bring.
