Synergistic Thermoresponsive Optical Properties of a Composite Self-Healing Hydrogel

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 3671-3679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silas Owusu-Nkwantabisah ◽  
Jeffrey Gillmor ◽  
Steven Switalski ◽  
Mark R. Mis ◽  
Grace Bennett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Composite Self

Adaptable Eu-containing polymeric films with dynamic control of mechanical properties in response to moisture

Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 2276-2284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zichao Wei ◽  
Srinivas Thanneeru ◽  
Elena Margaret Rodriguez ◽  
Gengsheng Weng ◽  
Jie He
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Optical Properties ◽  
Polymer Films ◽  
Dynamic Control ◽  
Polymeric Films ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Healing Efficiency

Moisture that competes with dipicolylamine to bind Eu dynamically controls the mechanical and optical properties of polymer films, as well as their self-healing efficiency.

scholarly journals Self-Healing of Ionomeric Polymers with Carbon Fibers from Medium-Velocity Impact and Resistive Heating

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishnu Baba Sundaresan ◽  
Andrew Morgan ◽  
Matt Castellucci
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Polymer Matrix ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Complete Recovery ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Resistive Heating ◽  
Velocity Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Composite Self

Self-healing materials science has seen significant advances in the last decade. Recent efforts have demonstrated healing in polymeric materials through chemical reaction, thermal treatment, and ultraviolet irradiation. The existing technology for healing polymeric materials through the aforementioned mechanisms produces an irreversible change in the material and makes it unsuitable for subsequent healing cycles. To overcome these disadvantages, we demonstrate a new composite self-healing material made from an ionomer (Surlyn) and carbon fiber that can sustain damage from medium-velocity impact and heal from the energy of the impact. Furthermore, the carbon fiber embedded in the polymer matrix results in resistive heating of the polymer matrix locally, melts the ionomer matrix around the damage, and heals the material at the damaged location. This paper presents methods to melt-process Surlyn with carbon fiber and demonstrates healing in the material through medium-velocity impact tests, resistive heating, and imaging through electron and optical microscopy. A new metric for quantifying self-healing in the sample, called width-heal ratio, is developed, and we report that the Surlyn-carbon fiber-based material under an optimal rate of heating and at the correct temperature has a width-heal ratio of >0.9, thereby demonstrating complete recovery from the damage.

Ultra elastic, stretchable, self-healing conductive hydrogels with tunable optical properties for highly sensitive soft electronic sensors

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (46) ◽  
pp. 24718-24733
Author(s):  
Meng Wu ◽  
Jingsi Chen ◽  
Yuhao Ma ◽  
Bin Yan ◽  
Mingfei Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Ionic Conductor ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Dynamic Covalent Chemistry ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Tunable Optical Properties ◽  
Conductive Hydrogels ◽  
Electronic Sensors

A self-healing hydrogel ionic conductor has been developed by combining dynamic covalent chemistry with nanofiller reinforcement and micelle crosslinking, and used for sensing of diverse human activities.

A Lactoglobulin-Composite Self-Healing Coating for Mg Alloys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawen Feng ◽  
Yukun Pan ◽  
Meng Yang ◽  
Carlos Fernandez ◽  
Xiaobo Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mg Alloys ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Composite Self

scholarly journals Reversibly growing crosslinked polymers with programmable sizes and properties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Aizenberg ◽  
Jiaxi Cui ◽  
Xiaozhuang Zhou ◽  
Yijun Zheng ◽  
Haohui Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Optical Properties ◽  
Organic Materials ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Crosslinked Polymers ◽  
Acid Catalyzed ◽  
Mechanical Performances ◽  
Surface Morphologies

Abstract Planaria can integrate external nutrients to grow or consume their bodies to degrow for adapting to environmental changes. In contrast, synthetic organic materials, especially those with crosslinked structures, are normally static and cannot post-vary their sizes and properties without compromising material mechanical performances for sustainable use. Inspired by Planaria, we here report a growing-degrowing strategy of enabling thermosetting materials to either absorb or release components for continuously changing their sizes, shapes, compositions, and a set of properties simultaneously. The strategy is based on the monomer-polymer equilibrium of networks in which supplying or removing small polymerizable components would drive the networks toward expansion or contraction. Using acid-catalyzed equilibration of siloxane as an example, we demonstrate that the size and mechanical properties of the resulting silicone materials can be significantly or finely tuned in both directions of growth and decomposition. The equilibration can be turned off to yield stable products or reactivated again. During the degrowing-growing circle, material structures are selectively varied either uniformly or heterogeneously, by the availability of fillers. Our strategy endows the materials with many appealing capabilities including environment adaptivity, self-healing, and switchability of surface morphologies, shapes, and optical properties. Since monomer-polymer equilibration exists in many polymers, we envision the expansion of the presented strategy to various systems for many applications.

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