Tough, Photoluminescent, Self-Healing Waterborne Polyurethane Elastomers Resulting from Synergistic Action of Multiple Dynamic Bonds

Polymers that integrate multiple functions into one system broaden the application range of materials, but it remains a great challenge to obtain polymer materials with simultaneously high strength, high toughness, and high self-healing rate. In this work, we prepared waterborne polyurethane (WPU) elastomers using Schiff bases containing disulfide and acylhydrazone bonds (PD) as chain extenders. Acylhydrazone forming a hydrogen bond not only acts as a physical cross-linking point, which promotes the microphase separation of polyurethane to increase the thermal stability, tensile strength, and toughness of the elastomer, but also serves as a "clip" to integrate various dynamic bonds together to synergistically reduce the activation energy of the polymer chain movement and endow the molecular chain with faster fluidity. Therefore, WPU-PD exhibits excellent mechanical properties at room temperature, such as a tensile strength and a fracture energy of 25.91 MPa and 121.66 kJ m-2, respectively, and a high self-healing efficiency of 93.7% in a short time under moderate heating conditions. In addition, the photoluminescence property of WPU-PD enables us to track its self-healing process by monitoring change of the fluorescence intensity at the cracks, which helps to avoid the accumulation of cracks and improve the reliability of the elastomer. This self-healing polyurethane has a great potential application value in optical anticounterfeiting, flexible electronics devices, functional automobile protective films, and so on.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 15(2023), 15 vom: 19. Apr., Seite 19414-19426

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhu, Xueling [VerfasserIn]
Han, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Li, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jianlong [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Jinfeng [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Zhicheng [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Mingwang [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Multiple dynamic bonds
Photoluminescent
Self-healing
Synergistic action
Waterborne polyurethane

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Date Completed 20.04.2023

Date Revised 20.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.3c00333

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355233029