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Cristina Resetco
Polymer and Materials Science
Self-Healing Materials
Motivation: Self-healing materials are smart materials that can
intrinsically repair damage leading to longer lifetimes, reduction of
inefficiency caused by degradation and material failure.
Applications: shock absorbing materials, paints and anti-corrosion
coatings.
Outline
(1) Restoration of Conductivity with TTF-TCNQ Charge-Transfer Salts
(2) Self-Healing Materials with Interpenetrating Microvascular
Networks
(3) Coaxial Electrospinning of Self-Healing Coatings
(4) Nanoscale Shape-Memory Alloys for Ultrahigh Mechanical Damping
Self-Healing Materials
Self-Healing Materials
http://www.autonomicmaterials.com/technology/
Self-Healing Methods
Material Design
A new microcapsule
system restores
conductivity in
mechanically
damaged electronic
devices in which the
repairing agent is not
conductive until its
release.
Tetrathiafulvalene Tetracyanoquinodimethane
tetrathiafulvalenetetracyanoquinodimethane
Non-conducting Non-conducting
Conducting
Microcapsule Synthesis
TTF and TCNQ were individually
incorporated into microcapsule cores
as saturated solutions in chlorobenzene
(PhCl), ethyl phenylacetate (EPA), and
phenyl acetate (PA).
Poly(urea-formaldehyde) (PUF)
coreshell microcapsules were
prepared using an in situ
emulsification polymerization in an
oil-in-water suspension.
Advantages
Figure. SEM images of a) the coreshell bead-on-string morphology and b) healing agent released from the
capsules when ruptured by mechanical scribing. c) Fluorescent optical microscopic image of sequentially spun
Rhodamine B (red) doped part A polysiloxane precursor capsules and Coumarin 6 (green) doped part B capsules.
d) TEM image of as-spun bean-on-fiber core/sheath structure.
Self-Healing by Polymerization
Figure. SEM images of scribed region of the self-healing sample after healing a) 458
crosssection and b) top view of the scribed region on a steel substrate.
Figure 2. Control and self-healing coating samples that were stored under ambient
conditions for 2 months after 5 days salt water immersion.
What is Next ?
Go Nano !