Autonomous Self-Healing Polymer Maltose: for Soft Electronics and Soft Robotics
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We introduce an enhanced polymer known as maltose polyborosiloxane (PM PBS), designed as an exceptional skin substrate. Engineered with unique properties, PM PBS demonstrates remarkable self-healing capabilities. Notably, it achieves a maximum strain at break exceeding 3000% and exhibits swift self-healing, fully recovering within a mere 10 s under ambient conditions and 3 min under both frozen (-20 ËšC) and underwater conditions. Additionally, our study highlights that the integrated PM PBS electronic adhesive can self-heal within 20 s underwater. Furthermore, we showcase the versatility of self-healing PM PBS when combined with Ecoflex (denoted as PME), successfully integrating it into piezoelectronic sensors and soft pneumatic grippers featuring in situ capacitive tactile sensing.
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1. Ching-Te Kuo, Yu-Chia Lin, Kuan-Yu Tu, Lung-Hao Hu, “Autonomous Self-Healing and Highly Stretchable Polymer Maltose Polyborosiloxane for Improving Soft Electronics and Soft Robots”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 12, 26, 15608-15618, 2024.
2. Kuan-Yu Tu, Yu-Chia Lin, Lung-Hao Hu, Ching-Te Kuo, “SELF-HEALING AND HIGHLY STRETCHABLE ELECTRONIC SKIN FOR SOFT ROBOTS,” accepted to be presented in The 37th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2024), January 21 – 25, 2024.
3. Yu-Chia Lin, Kuan-Yu Tu, Lung-Hao Hu, Ching-Te Kuo, “AUTONOMOUS SELF-HEALING, HIGHLY STRETCHABLE, AND ELASTIC CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES FOR ARTIFICIAL SOFT ELECTRONICS,” accepted to be presented in 22th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, June 25-29, 2023. (Transducers 2023)