Super-Flexible Water-Proof Actuators

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Humidity-responsive materials hold broad application prospects in sensing, energy production, and other fields. Particularly, humidity-sensitive, flexibility, and water resistance are pivotal factors in the development of optimized humidity-responsive materials. In this study, hydrophobic linear polyurethane and hydrophilic 4-vinylphenylboronic acid (4-VPBA) form a semi-intercross cross-linking network. This copolymer of polyurethane exhibits excellent humidity-sensitive, mechanical properties, and water resistance. Its maximum tensile strength and maximum elongation can reach 40.56 MPa and 543.47%, respectively. After being immersed in water at various temperatures for 15 days, it exhibited a swelling ratio of only 3.28% in water at 5 °C and 9.58% in water at 70 °C. While the presence of 4-VPBA network imparts humidity-sensitive, reversible, and multidirectional bending abilities, under the stimulus of water vapor, it can bend 43° within 1.4 s. The demonstrated material surpasses current bidirectional humidity actuators in actuating ability. Based on these characteristics, automatically opening waterproof umbrellas and windows, as well as bionic-arms, crawling robots, and self-propelled boats, are successfully developed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) - (2024) vom: 27. März, Seite e2400482

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Guilong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Jingjuan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhenyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Chunxia [VerfasserIn]
Xiang, Dong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yuanpeng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Actuators
Boroxine
Humidity‐responsive
Journal Article
Polyurethane
Water resistance

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Date Revised 27.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1002/smll.202400482

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370237153