Tribology in High-Strength Hydrogels

Abstract

The friction properties of polymer hydrogels are very complex. Hence, the friction properties of hydrogels have been studied to be applied to various mechanical parts. As a part of such studies, we have measured the dynamic frictional coefficients of high-strength hydrogels such as double network (DN) gel and shape memory gel (SMG). We introduce such experimental results and the project to apply the hydrogels to “Soft-Matter Robotics”.