Conducting polymer nanoparticles with intrinsic aqueous dispersibility for conductive hydrogels


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Joshua Tropp, Caralyn P. Collins, Xinran Xie, Rachel E. Daso, Abijeet Singh Mehta, Shiv P. Patel, Manideep M. Reddy, Sophia E. Levin, Cheng Sun, Jonathan Rivnay
Adv. Mater., vol. 36(1), 2024 Jan 1, p. 2306691


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Tropp, J., Collins, C. P., Xie, X., Daso, R. E., Mehta, A. S., Patel, S. P., … Rivnay, J. (2024). Conducting polymer nanoparticles with intrinsic aqueous dispersibility for conductive hydrogels. Adv. Mater., 36(1), 2306691. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202306691


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Tropp, Joshua, Caralyn P. Collins, Xinran Xie, Rachel E. Daso, Abijeet Singh Mehta, Shiv P. Patel, Manideep M. Reddy, Sophia E. Levin, Cheng Sun, and Jonathan Rivnay. “Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles with Intrinsic Aqueous Dispersibility for Conductive Hydrogels.” Adv. Mater. 36, no. 1 (January 1, 2024): 2306691.


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Tropp, Joshua, et al. “Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles with Intrinsic Aqueous Dispersibility for Conductive Hydrogels.” Adv. Mater., vol. 36, no. 1, Jan. 2024, p. 2306691, doi:10.1002/adma.202306691.


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@article{joshua2024a,
  title = {Conducting polymer nanoparticles with intrinsic aqueous dispersibility for conductive hydrogels},
  year = {2024},
  month = jan,
  day = {1},
  issue = {1},
  journal = {Adv. Mater.},
  pages = {2306691},
  volume = {36},
  doi = {10.1002/adma.202306691},
  author = {Tropp, Joshua and Collins, Caralyn P. and Xie, Xinran and Daso, Rachel E. and Mehta, Abijeet Singh and Patel, Shiv P. and Reddy, Manideep M. and Levin, Sophia E. and Sun, Cheng and Rivnay, Jonathan},
  month_numeric = {1}
}

Conductive hydrogels are promising materials with mixed ionic-electronic conduction to interface living tissue (ionic signal transmission) with medical devices (electronic signal transmission). The hydrogel form factor also uniquely bridges the wet/soft biological environment with the dry/hard environment of electronics. The synthesis of hydrogels for bioelectronics requires scalable, biocompatible fillers with high electronic conductivity and compatibility with common aqueous hydrogel formulations/resins. Despite significant advances in the processing of carbon nanomaterials, fillers that satisfy all these requirements are lacking. Herein, intrinsically dispersible acid-crystalized PEDOT:PSS nanoparticles (ncrys-PEDOTX) are reported which are processed through a facile and scalable nonsolvent induced phase separation method from commercial PEDOT:PSS without complex instrumentation. The particles feature conductivities of up to 410 S cm−1, and when compared to other common conductive fillers, display remarkable dispersibility, enabling homogeneous incorporation at relatively high loadings within diverse aqueous biomaterial solutions without additives or surfactants. The aqueous dispersibility of the ncrys-PEDOTX particles also allows simple incorporation into resins designed for microstereolithography without sonication or surfactant optimization; complex biomedical structures with fine features (< 150 µm) are printed with up to 10% particle loading . The ncrys-PEDOTX particles overcome the challenges of traditional conductive fillers, providing a scalable, biocompatible, plug-and-play platform for soft organic bioelectronic materials.

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