| Budget Amount *help |
¥49,660,000 (Direct Cost: ¥38,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥11,460,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥9,750,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,250,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥9,750,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,250,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥9,750,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,250,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥9,750,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,250,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥10,660,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,460,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Hydrogels with lamellar structure consisting of stacking of lipid bilayer and neutral gel layer were developed from one-pot polymerization from mixture of polymerizable lipid monomer and neutral monomer. By applying shear flow to the precursor monomer solution above a critical shear rate, the orientation of lamellar can be uniaxially aligned both in sheet or in multi-cylindrical shape. These gels could be classified as soft crystal because they possess crystal-like photonic structure while maintain soft and flexible feature. These gels show unique properties such as structural color, anisotropic swelling and diffusion, anisotropic mechanical properties. The structure color of sheet-shape gel is angle-dependent while that of multi-cylindrical gel is angle-independent. Moreover, the bilayers serve as reversible sacrificial structure to tough the material. Such multi-functional hydrogels have promising applications.
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