Fully Biobased Degradable Vitrimer Foams : Mechanical Robust, Catalyst-Free Self-Healing, and Shape Memory Properties

Thermosetting foams have limited capabilities for recycling, reprocessing, or reshaping. Moreover, most of the foaming agents currently employed in these foams are derived from organic compounds sourced from petrochemicals, thereby posing a significant environmental threat due to heightened pollution. To solve these problems, a fully biobased degradable vitrimer foam (EPC-X) was fabricated using an environmentally friendly all-in-one foaming strategy by cross-linking epoxidized malepimaric anhydride (EMPA), 1,5-diaminopentane (PDA), and 1,5-diaminopentane carbamate (PDAC) as a latent curing-blowing agent. To our delight, the vitrimer foams exhibit excellent mechanical properties (2.86 ± 0.11 MPa compressive strength) owing to their unique rigid rosin backbone and cross-linking networks. The presence of dynamic β-hydroxy ester bonds and the self-catalytic behavior of tertiary amine groups facilitate network rearrangement without requiring additional catalysts, thereby resulting in the development of EPC-X with rapid self-healing and shape memory properties. The self-healing foam could support a weight of 500 g (approximately 562 times its own mass). Moreover, these high-performance vitrimer foams can also be easily degraded in an ethanolamine (EA) or NaOH solution under mild conditions. Such a design strategy offers an alternative approach for developing superior degradable and thermal stimuli-responsive thermosetting foams.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 16(2024), 5 vom: 07. Feb., Seite 6523-6532

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tian, Yabing [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Xuezhen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Shang, Shibin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, He [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xujuan [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Jianxin [VerfasserIn]
Song, Zhanqian [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Haibo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

All-in-one foaming
Degradable
Journal Article
Self-healing
Shape memory
Vitrimer foams

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Date Revised 08.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.4c00267

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367655721