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ACS MACRO LETTERS
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 80-83Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/mz200049v
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- Army contract [W911QY-08-C-0142]
- 3M Nontenured Faculty
- Sherwin Williams Company
- Bayer Fellowship
- NSF BRIGE [EEC-0824333]
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Stimuli-responsive materials are desired for a wide range of applications. Here, we report the design and fabrication of all-organic, stimuli-responsive polymer composites using electrospun nanofibers as the filler. The incorporation of 4 wt % of filler into the polymer matrix increased the tensile storage modulus by 2 orders of magnitude. Upon exposure to water, the filler fibers plasticize and no longer provide mechanical reinforcement. The tensile storage modulus subsequently diminishes 2 orders of magnitude to the value of the neat matrix polymer.
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