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Cartilage-inspired, lipid-based boundary-lubricated hydrogels
Abstract
Slippery surfaces using lipids: In engineered systems, a reduction in friction can come from the use of lubricants or through surface coatings that are inherently slippery. For most hydrogels, which are cross-linked polymers heavily swelled with water, surface lubrication typically comes from trapped liquids that help to form a slippery surface. Drawing inspiration from articular cartilage that in part uses a lipid boundary layer, Lin et al. designed hydrogels with small concentrations of lipids that are continuously exuded toward the surface to make a slippery layer (see the Perspective by Schmidt). Friction and wear of the hydrogels was reduced by up to a factor of 100, and the effect was observed even after the hydrogels were dried and rehydrated. Science , this issue p. 335 ; see also p. 288
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lin, W., Kluzek, M., Iuster, N., Shimoni, E., Kampf, N., Goldberg, R., & Klein, J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2020-10-16
- Volume
- 370
- Issue
- 6514
- Pages
- 335-338
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W3093204259
- Cited by
- 412
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 11.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Funders
- European Research Council (AdG Cartilube, grant no. 743016)
- Rothschild Caesarea Foundation (Weizmann-EPFL Collaboration Program)
- McCutchen Foundation
- Israel Science Foundation-National Science Foundation China (Grant 2577/17)
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