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Jiarong Huang1,2, Liming Cao1,2, Daosheng Yuan1,2
1Lab of Advanced Elastomer , South China University of Technology , 381 Wushan Road, Tianhe District , Guangzhou 510640 , China.
Abstract:
We designed novel self-healing thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs), achieving excellent thermal/magnetic/light-triggered shape memory assisted self-healing behavior. Damage on polylactide (PLA)/epoxidized natural rubber (ENR)/Fe3O4 TPVs could be healed via three events synergistically: the shape memory effect of TPVs resulted in the physical contact of damaged surfaces; the desorption-absorption of ENR/Fe3O4-bound rubber promoted interdiffusion of ENR chains, leading to the self-healing of ENR phase; ENR was grafted onto PLA segments to assist PLA rearranging and entangling again to achieve the repair of TPVs. This self-healing TPV is reported for the first time and paves the way to design next-generation self-healing materials.
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