Issue 33, 2021

Extremely tough and healable elastomer realized via reducing the crystallinity of its rigid domain

Abstract

We propose a new concept, called “toughening the rigidity”, for the field of self-healing materials. Here, metal ions were added to a material to sacrifice the crystallinity of its rigid domain, and the resulting elastomer displayed high toughness and self-healing ability. The as-synthesized healable elastomer specifically presented a nearly unprecedented toughness value of 228.86 MJ m−3, a value higher than those of most reported self-healing elastomers.

Graphical abstract: Extremely tough and healable elastomer realized via reducing the crystallinity of its rigid domain

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Jun 2021
Accepted
23 Jul 2021
First published
28 Jul 2021

Polym. Chem., 2021,12, 4778-4784

Extremely tough and healable elastomer realized via reducing the crystallinity of its rigid domain

C. Xing, H. Wu, R. Du, Q. Zhang and X. Jia, Polym. Chem., 2021, 12, 4778 DOI: 10.1039/D1PY00870F

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