articleAdvanced MaterialsJan 20, 2023BRONZE OA

Highly Damping and Self‐Healable Ionic Elastomer from Dynamic Phase Separation of Sticky Fluorinated Polymers

Donghua University · State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials · +2 more institutions

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Shock-induced low-frequency vibration damage is extremely harmful to bionic soft robots and machines that may incur the malfunction of fragile electronic elements. However, current skin-like self-healable ionic elastomers as the artificial sensing and protecting layer still lack the ability to dampen vibrations, due to their almost opposite design for molecular frictions to material's elasticity. Inspired by the two-phase structure of adipose tissue (the natural damping skin layer), here, a highly damping ionic elastomer with energy-dissipating nanophases embedded in an elastic matrix is introduced, which is formed by polymerization-induced dynamic phase separation of sticky fluorinated copolymers in the…

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