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Self‐healable and reprocessible liquid crystalline elastomer and its highly thermal conductive composites by incorporating graphene via in‐situ polymerization
Author(s) -
Zhang Qian,
Chen Guokang,
Wu Kun,
Shi Jun,
Liang Liyan,
Lu Mangeng
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.49748
Subject(s) - materials science , composite material , elastomer , thermal conductivity , ultimate tensile strength , composite number , graphene , electrical conductor , in situ polymerization , polymerization , thermal , polymer , nanotechnology , physics , meteorology
The booming of modern electronic devices featuring increasing power and multi‐functionalization demands novel high thermal conductive materials with various functions, such as self‐healing property and high deformability, while traditional polymer‐based or metallic‐based materials could hardly provide. Therefore, we report a high thermal conductive and disulfide‐based self‐healable and reprocessible liquid crystalline elastomer (SHLCE) composite by incorporating graphene nanoplates (GNPs) fillers. The obtained GNPs/SHLCE composites exhibited desired thermal conductivity (5.08 Wm −1 K −1 ) when the content of GNPs was 20 wt% to the composites. Moreover, the GNPs/SHLCE composites showed intriguing recycled performance (Tensile strength after recycle could maintain over 93% compared with that of original composites). Furthermore, we concluded that the improved thermal conductivity of GNPs/SHLCE composites was beneficial to the thermal induced reprocessible and shelf‐healable systems.