articleNature CommunicationsApr 27, 2020GOLD OA

Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability

Tianjin University · Marine Biomedical Research Institute of Qingdao

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Abstract

Developing autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions is challenging because the reconstruction of interaction in material for self-healing will experience significant resistance and fail. Herein, a universally self-healing and highly stretchable supramolecular elastomer is designed by synergistically incorporating multi-strength H-bonds and disulfide metathesis in polydimethylsiloxane polymers. The resultant elastomer exhibits high stretchability for both unnotched (14000%) and notched (1300%) samples. It achieves fast autonomous self-healing under universal conditions, including at room temperature (10 min for healing), ultralow temperature (-40 °C), underwater (93% healing…

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