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Room temperature self-healing power of silicone elastomers having silver nanoparticles as crosslinkers
Roberto Martín1, Alaitz Rekondo, Jon Echeberria
1CIDETEC-IK4, Centre for Electrochemical Technologies, New Materials Department, Paseo Miramón 196, 20009 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 1, 2012
Abstract:
Thiol-functionalised silicone-oils were crosslinked with silver nanoparticles to give mechanically consistent elastomers with high self-healing power. The materials were broken into small pieces and put together in intimate contact for 24 hours at room temperature, observing a complete macroscopic healing and a quantitative recovery of compression-stress and strain.
