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Soft Materials with Recoverable Shape Factors from Extreme Distortion States
Author(s) -
Goff Jonathan,
Sulaiman Santy,
Arkles Barry,
Lewicki James P.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201503320
Subject(s) - materials science , elastomer , fabrication , polymer , microfluidics , distortion (music) , composite material , nanocomposite , soft materials , nanotechnology , polymer science , optoelectronics , amplifier , cmos , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Elastomeric polysiloxane nanocomposites with elongations of >5000% (more than 3× greater than any previously reported material) with excellent shape recovery are presented. Highly deformable materials are desirable for the fabrication of stretchable implants and microfluidic devices. No crosslinking or domain formation is observed by a variety of analytical techniques, suggesting that their elastomeric behavior is caused by polymer chain entanglements.