A self-healable, stretchable, tear-resistant and sticky elastomer enabled by a facile polymer blends strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 3931-3939
Author(s):  
Shiqiang Song ◽  
Honghao Hou ◽  
Jincheng Wang ◽  
Pinhua Rao ◽  
Yong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Blends ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Physical Blending

A high-stretchability, high-strength, tear-resistant, self-healing and adhesive elastomer is prepared through a facile and effective physical blending strategy. The elastomer shows potential applications in e-skin devices.

Non-covalent Tough Hydrogels for Functional Actuators

MRS Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 501-507
Author(s):  
Jun Fu ◽  
Guorong Gao ◽  
Yuanna Sun
Keyword(s):  
Functional Groups ◽  
Crosslink Density ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Soft Robotics ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Amino Groups ◽  
Design And Synthesis ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Responsive Hydrogels ◽  
Very High

ABSTRACTTough and responsive hydrogels have recently attracted great research interests for potential applications in artifical muscles, soft robotics, and actuators, etc. This paper overviews our recent progresses in the design and synthesis of hydrogels with very high strength and toughness, and actuators based on these hydrogels. Inorganic nanospheres, nanorods, and nanosheets are exploited as multi-functional crosslinkers to adsorb or bond with hydrophilic chains, leading to hydrogels with very high strength, toughness, fatigue resistance, and/or self-healing. Introduction of functional groups including ionic monomers and amino groups results in hydrogels reponsive to pH, ionic strength and electric field. Besides, ionoprinting has been used to change local crosslink density based on reversible chelating/decomposition of metal ions with functional groups. This process is rapid and thus enables reversible and rapid actuation of hydrogel devices. Our studies will further aim to develop sophiscated devices by assembling hydrogel actuators.

Development of high-strength, tough, and self-healing carboxymethyl guar gum-based hydrogels for human motion detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 900-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Yunhao Bu ◽  
Delin Li ◽  
Yuan Liu ◽  
Guangxue Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motion Detection ◽  
Guar Gum ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Human Motion Detection ◽  
Potential Applications

Self-healing hydrogels have attracted intense attention because of their potential applications in ionic strain sensors.

scholarly journals Achromatic terahertz Airy beam generation with dielectric metasurfaces

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingqing Cheng ◽  
Juncheng Wang ◽  
Ling Ma ◽  
Zhixiong Shen ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Imaging ◽  
Frequency Dispersion ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Photonic Devices ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Beam Focusing ◽  
Light Sheet Microscopy ◽  
Airy Beam ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Airy Beams

AbstractAiry beams exhibit intriguing properties such as nonspreading, self-bending, and self-healing and have attracted considerable recent interest because of their many potential applications in photonics, such as to beam focusing, light-sheet microscopy, and biomedical imaging. However, previous approaches to generate Airy beams using photonic structures have suffered from severe chromatic problems arising from strong frequency dispersion of the scatterers. Here, we design and fabricate a metasurface composed of silicon posts for the frequency range 0.4–0.8 THz in transmission mode, and we experimentally demonstrate achromatic Airy beams exhibiting autofocusing properties. We further show numerically that a generated achromatic Airy-beam-based metalens exhibits self-healing properties that are immune to scattering by particles and that it also possesses a larger depth of focus than a traditional metalens. Our results pave the way to the realization of flat photonic devices for applications to noninvasive biomedical imaging and light-sheet microscopy, and we provide a numerical demonstration of a device protocol.

scholarly journals Facile Synthesis and Characterization of Palm CNF-ZnO Nanocomposites with Antibacterial and Reinforcing Properties

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 5781
Author(s):  
Janarthanan Supramaniam ◽  
Darren Yi Sern Low ◽  
See Kiat Wong ◽  
Loh Teng Hern Tan ◽  
Bey Fen Leo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Biomass ◽  
Cellulose Nanofibers ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Salmonella Typhi ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
Mechanical Reinforcement ◽  
Uniform Size ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Potential Applications

Cellulose nanofibers (CNF) isolated from plant biomass have attracted considerable interests in polymer engineering. The limitations associated with CNF-based nanocomposites are often linked to the time-consuming preparation methods and lack of desired surface functionalities. Herein, we demonstrate the feasibility of preparing a multifunctional CNF-zinc oxide (CNF-ZnO) nanocomposite with dual antibacterial and reinforcing properties via a facile and efficient ultrasound route. We characterized and examined the antibacterial and mechanical reinforcement performances of our ultrasonically induced nanocomposite. Based on our electron microscopy analyses, the ZnO deposited onto the nanofibrous network had a flake-like morphology with particle sizes ranging between 21 to 34 nm. pH levels between 8–10 led to the formation of ultrafine ZnO particles with a uniform size distribution. The resultant CNF-ZnO composite showed improved thermal stability compared to pure CNF. The composite showed potent inhibitory activities against Gram-positive (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)) and Gram-negative Salmonella typhi (S. typhi) bacteria. A CNF-ZnO-reinforced natural rubber (NR/CNF-ZnO) composite film, which was produced via latex mixing and casting methods, exhibited up to 42% improvement in tensile strength compared with the neat NR. The findings of this study suggest that ultrasonically-synthesized palm CNF-ZnO nanocomposites could find potential applications in the biomedical field and in the development of high strength rubber composites.

Preparation and characterization of double network hydrogel with high-strength and self-healing

2021 ◽  
pp. 102450
Author(s):  
Shubin Li ◽  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Jiang Zhu ◽  
Zhenyu Wang ◽  
Lu Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Strength ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Double Network

Stretchable dual cross-linked silicon elastomer with superhydrophobic surface and fast triple self-healing ability at room temperature

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxing Shan ◽  
shuai liang ◽  
Xiangkai Mao ◽  
Jie Lu ◽  
Lili Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Superhydrophobic Surface ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Superhydrophobic Surfaces ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Actual Application ◽  
Potential Applications

Abstract. Stretchable elastomers with superhydrophobic surfaces have potential applications in wearable electronics. However, various types of damage inevitably occur on these elastomers in actual application, resulting in deterioration of the...

A High Strength but Fast Fracture‐Self‐Healing Thermoplastic Elastomer

2021 ◽  
pp. 2100135
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Yongjia Yu ◽  
Xiaojuan Zhao ◽  
Xin Yang ◽  
Ran Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Strength ◽  
Thermoplastic Elastomer ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Fast Fracture

scholarly journals The Role of Bio-Extracted Reduced Graphene Oxide in the Crystallization Kinetics of Chitosan Bio-Polymer

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Solomon L Joseph ◽  
◽  
Agumba O John ◽  
Fanuel M Keheze ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduced Graphene Oxide ◽  
Carbon Nanomaterials ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Reduced Graphene ◽  
Electrical Conductivities ◽  
Coating Method ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
New Applications

Carbon nanomaterials have recently attracted wide scientific applications due to their tunable properties. These novel materials act as best fillers that can provide substantial benefits due to their high strength, thermal conductivity, and electrical conductivities. With their huge applications as bulk materials, when implemented in polymer matrix as fillers, they give rise to new promising materials with which their properties can be tuned to suit a particular application. Besides the development of these new nanocomposite materials, there exist some challenges which must be fully surpassed to explore the potentiality of application of carbon-based nanocomposites. Reduced graphene oxide is one of the carbon derivatives which has attracted the current advancement in technology, and recently, it found its new applications in super capacitors used in electronic industries. The limiting factor for its exploration is the affordability. New and affordable sources of these graphene-based nanomaterial have to be devised, for fully realization of their potential applications. In this study, reduced graphene oxide and the bio-polymer chitosan were extracted from the locally available bio waste materials. Nanocomposites were prepared at 50% rGO: chitosan ratio. The films were then prepared by spin coating method. Prepared films were subjected to morphological analysis. From the results, it was observed that rGO induced chitosan crystallization, which led to formation of dendritic structures. Cellulose nanocrystals have thus displayed temperature dependent positive uniaxial birefringence

A room-temperature self-healing elastomer with ultra-high strength and toughness fabricated via optimized hierarchical hydrogen-bonding interactions

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangliang Xia ◽  
Ming Zhou ◽  
Hongjun Tu ◽  
wen Zeng ◽  
xiaoling Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Bonding ◽  
Mechanical Strength ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
High Mechanical Strength ◽  
Hydrogen Bonding Interactions ◽  
Healing Efficiency ◽  
Good Healing

The preparation of room-temperature self-healing polymeric materials with good healing efficiency and high mechanical strength is challenging. Two processes are essential to realise the room-temperature self-healing of materials: (a) a...

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