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ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 2890-2898Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c05243
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- Open Fund of the Collaborative Innovation Centre for Fluorosilicon Fine Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing of Zhejiang Province [FSi2019A007]
- Hangzhou Hanghua Ink Co. Ltd.
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The development of a UV-cured transparent flexible silicone material with high tensile strength and elongation at break was successful. These materials show excellent UV resistance, outstanding adhesion to substrates, and have potential applications in packaging or protecting optical or electronic devices.
Flexibility and mechanical performance are essential for transparent silicone materials applied in some optical and electronic devices; however, the tensile strength of transparent silicone materials is fairly low. To overcome this problem, a kind of UV-cured transparent flexible silicone material with quite a high tensile strength and elongation at break was developed through UV-initiated thiolene reaction by hyperbranched silicon-containing polymers (HBPs) with a thiol substitute and acrylate-terminated polyurethanes. Unexpectedly, it is found that both the tensile strength and elongation at break of the transparent silicone materials are extraordinarily high, which can reach 3.40 MPa and 270.0%, respectively. The UV-cured materials have good UV resistance ability because their transmittance is still as high as 93.4% (800 nm) even when aged for 40 min in a UV chamber of 10.6 mW cm(-2). They exhibit outstanding adhesion to substrates, and the adhesion to a glass slide, wood, and a tin plate is grade 1. The promising results encourage us to further improve the mechanical performance of flexible transparent silicone materials by effective chemical modification strategies with HBPs. An attempt was made to apply the UV-cured materials in a Gel-Pak box and it could be proved that the UV-cured materials may be one of the good candidates for use as packaging or protecting materials of optical or electronics devices such as the Gel-Pak product.
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