Realizing Crack Diagnosing and Self-Healing by Electricity with a Dynamic Crosslinked Flexible Polyurethane Composite.

ABSTRACT: Combining self-healing functions with damage diagnosing, which can achieve timely healing autonomously, is expected to improve the reliability and reduce life cycle cost of materials. Here, a flexible conductive composite composed of a dynamically crosslinked polyurethane bearing Diels-Alder bonds (PUDA) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which possess both crack diagnosing and self-healing functions, is reported. The introduced dynamic Diels-Alder bonds endow the materials self-healing function and the powder-based preparation route based on the specially designed CNTs-coated PUDA micropowders leads to the formation of segregated CNTs network, which makes the composite possess excellent mechanical properties and high conductivity. Because of the sufficient electrothermal and photothermal effect

SUBMITTER: Pu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5978978 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature