UV-Triggered Cascading Degradation of Silicone Elastomer via Self-Fluoride Amplification.

ABSTRACT: UV-triggered on-demand degradable materials offering accurate and remote control of material lifetime, are emerging as vital element for applications such as self-destructive soft robotics for hardware security, triggerable transient electronics, and data protection systems. However, previously reported UV-initiated materials face challenges, including i) poor scalability with limited penetration depth of UV light, ii) incompatibility with UV-blocking materials, preventing generation of reactive moieties for degradation. This study proposes a locally UV-triggered, synergistic F^- self-amplification system that enables rapid, complete, and on-demand degradation of silicone elastomer composite, even with embedding UV-blocking particles. This is achieved by introducing a self-immola

SUBMITTER: Kim YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12520503 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature