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Fabrication Process of Silicone-based Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
Published on: February 1, 2016
A self-reinforcing and self-healing elastomer with high strength, unprecedented toughness and room-temperature
Yuhan Li1, Wenjuan Li, Ailing Sun
1College of Chemistry and Green Catalysis Center, Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Elastic Sealing Materials, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. weiliuhe@zzu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The development of intrinsic self-healing elastomers with simultaneous high mechanical strength, toughness and room-temperature reparability remains a formidable challenge. Herein, we report a mechano-responsive strategy, known as strain induced crystallization, to address the above issue, whereby synthesized elastomers with unprecedented high mechanical performances are bestowed with room-temperature self-healing materials, achieving tensile strength, toughness and fracture energy values of 29.0 MPa, 121.8 MJ m-3 and 104.1 kJ m-2, respectively.
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