Deformation Rate-Adaptive Conducting Polymers and Composites.
Small
; 19(35): e2207100, 2023 Aug.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37098606
ABSTRACT
Materials are more easily damaged during accidents that involve rapid deformation. Here, a design strategy is described for electronic materials comprised of conducting polymers that defies this orthodox property, making their extensibility and toughness dynamically adaptive to deformation rates. This counterintuitive property is achieved through a morphology of interconnected nanoscopic core-shell micelles, where the chemical interactions are stronger within the shells than the cores. As a result, the interlinked shells retain material integrity under strain, while the rate of dissociation of the cores controls the extent of micelle elongation, which is a process that adapts to deformation rates. A prototype based on polyaniline shows a 7.5-fold increase in ultimate elongation and a 163-fold increase in toughness when deformed at increasing rates from 2.5 to 10 000% min-1 . This concept can be generalized to other conducting polymers and highly conductive composites to create "self-protective" soft electronic materials with enhanced durability under dynamic movement or deformation.
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MEDLINE
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En
Journal:
Small
Journal subject:
ENGENHARIA BIOMEDICA
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States