School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China.
J Am Chem Soc. 2021 Jan 20;143(2):902-911. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c10918. Epub 2020 Nov 30.
A thin filament stimulated by Ca to combine with myosin is the structural basis to achieve filament sliding and muscle contraction. Though a large variety of artificial materials has been developed by mimicking muscle, the on-demand combination of the actin filament and myosin has never been precisely reproduced in polymeric systems. Herein, we show that both the combination process and the combined structure of actin filament and myosin have been mimicked to construct synergistic covalent and supramolecular polymers (CSPs). Specifically, photoirradiation as a stimulus induces the independently formed covalent polymers (CPs) and supramolecular polymers (SPs) to interact with each other through activated quadruple H-bonding. The resultant CSPs possess a unique network structure which not only facilitates the synergistic effect of CPs and SPs to afford stiff, strong, yet tough materials but also provides efficient pathways to dissipate energy with the damping capacity of the representative material being higher than 95%. Furthermore, muscle functions, for example, by becoming stiff during contraction and self-growth by training, are imitated well in our system via phototriggered formation of CSP in the solid state. We hope that the fundamental understanding gained from this work will promote the development of synergistic CSP systems with emergent functions and applications by mimicking the principle of muscle movements.
由 Ca 刺激的细纤维与肌球蛋白结合是实现纤维滑动和肌肉收缩的结构基础。尽管已经通过模拟肌肉开发了大量的人工材料,但在聚合体系中从未精确复制肌动球蛋白丝的按需组合。在这里,我们展示了肌动球蛋白丝的组合过程和组合结构都被模拟来构建协同共价和超分子聚合物(CSP)。具体来说,光辐照作为一种刺激,通过激活的四重氢键诱导独立形成的共价聚合物(CP)和超分子聚合物(SP)相互作用。所得的 CSP 具有独特的网络结构,不仅有利于 CPs 和 SPs 的协同效应,从而提供坚硬、强韧的材料,而且还提供了有效的能量耗散途径,代表性材料的阻尼能力高于 95%。此外,通过光触发固态 CSP 的形成,我们的系统很好地模拟了肌肉的功能,例如在收缩时变硬和通过训练自我生长。我们希望从这项工作中获得的基本理解将通过模拟肌肉运动的原理来促进具有新兴功能和应用的协同 CSP 系统的发展。
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