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Multistimuli-Responsive Intrinsic Self-Healing Epoxy Resin Constructed by Host-Guest Interactions

  • Zhen Hu*
  • , Dayu Zhang
  • , Fei Lu
  • , Weihao Yuan
  • , Xirong Xu
  • , Qian Zhang
  • , Hu Liu
  • , Qian Shao
  • , Zhanhu Guo
  • , Yudong Huang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Zhengzhou University
  • University of Tennessee
  • Shandong University of Science and Technology

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Abstract

The self-healing abilities inside polymeric materials are desirable functions in materials science. Host-guest chemistry, combined with excellent properties of graphene, was used for the construction of multistimuli-responsive intrinsic self-healing epoxy materials. By ultraviolet (UV) curing, the unsaturated epoxy resin was connected with β-cyclodextrin/graphene complex through free radical copolymerization. The introduced complex, acting as macro-cross-linker and photothermal agent, can reconnect the damage-induced broken bonds through dynamic host-guest interaction. In this work, the epoxy composites exhibited a high healing efficiency of up to 79.2% and tensile strength of up to 20.8 MPa under heating or near-infrared stimulation, which represent relatively excellent values among all the reported intrinsic self-healing epoxy resin and host-guest self-healing systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5294-5303
Number of pages10
JournalMacromolecules
Volume51
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes

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