Ultrarobust subzero healable materials enabled by polyphenol nano-assemblies

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 814 - 10
• Main Authors: Wang, Nan, Yang, Xin, Zhang, Xinxing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 13.02.2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 140/125; 140/133; 140/146; 147/143; 147/3; 639/301/1005/1009; 639/301/1023/1025; 639/301/357/341; 639/301/357/354; Artificial muscles; Assemblies; Biomimetics; Crosslinking; Elastomers; Electronics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Low temperature; Mechanical properties; multidisciplinary; Muscles; Polymerization; Polymers; Robots; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Self healing materials; Soft robotics; Solvents; Subzero temperature; Wearable technology

Bio-inspired self-healing materials hold great promise for applications in wearable electronics, artificial muscles and soft robots, etc. However, self-healing at subzero temperatures remains a great challenge because the reconstruction of interactions will experience resistance of the frozen segmen...