Tacky Elastomers to Enable Tear‐Resistant and Autonomous Self‐Healing Semiconductor Composites

• Published in: Advanced functional materials Vol. 30; no. 27
• Main Authors: Zhang, Song, Cheng, Yu‐Hsuan, Galuska, Luke, Roy, Anirban, Lorenz, Matthias, Chen, Beibei, Luo, Shaochuan, Li, Yen‐Ting, Hung, Chih‐Chien, Qian, Zhiyuan, St. Onge, Peter Blake Joseph, Mason, Gage T., Cowen, Lewis, Zhou, Dongshan, Nazarenko, Sergei I., Storey, Robson F., Schroeder, Bob C., Rondeau‐Gagné, Simon, Chiu, Yu‐Cheng, Gu, Xiaodan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2020; Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
• Subjects: air‐stable devices; autonomous self‐healing; Butyl rubber; Crack propagation; crack resistance; Cyclic loads; Elastic deformation; Elastomers; Electronics; Formability; Healing; Materials science; Modulus of elasticity; Notches; Polymer films; Polymer matrix composites; Polymers; Room temperature; semiconducting polymers; Strain; Thin films

Mechanical failure of π‐conjugated polymer thin films is unavoidable under cyclic loading conditions, due to intrinsic defects and poor resistance to crack propagation. Here, the first tear‐resistant and room‐temperature self‐healable semiconducting composite is presented, consisting of conjugated p...