Confinement-Driven Segregation Enables Glassy Polymer Hybrid Materials Featuring Disordered Hyperuniformity and Integrated Self-Healing.

ABSTRACT: The blending of glassy copolymer-brush modified colloids with a viscoelastic linear copolymer featuring intrinsic self-healing enabled disordered hyperuniform hybrid materials that combined mechanical robustness with structural color, processability, environmental stability, and the ability to recover structure and properties after incurring physical damage via 'integrated self-healing'. Symmetric linear n-butyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate (BA/MMA) were co-assembled with asymmetric glassy BA/MMA statistical copolymer brush (silica) particles. 'Confinement-driven segregation' resulted in a microphase-separated morphology in which the linear copolymer resided within the interstitial regions of a rigid (∼1 GPa) copolymer brush particle template with disordered hyperuniform microstructure. Di

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12326392 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature