Journal
APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Volume 128, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-021-05245-7
Keywords
Artificial muscle; Stretchability; Self-healing
Funding
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M630330, 2019T120245]
- Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province [QC2018046]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51905085, 52175266]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2572019BF11]
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In this study, a stretchable, self-healing ionic electroactive polymer (PAST-iEAPs) was developed by incorporating cassava starch to improve its mechanical properties. The modified PAST-iEAPs exhibited good tensile strength and self-healing efficiency, and showed excellent electromechanical performance. This work demonstrates the great potential of PAST-iEAPs in the research fields of soft robots and biomedical devices.
In recent years, the application of flexible electronic devices such as soft sensors and soft actuators has been limited, due to issues with their greater electromechanical performance and self-healing ability. Ionic electroactive polymers (iEAPs) have excellent development potential in this field because of its faster response speed and better tensile properties. Here, we proposed a stretchable, self-healing ionic electroactive polymer (PAST-iEAPs), which contains cassava starch to generate many hydrogen bonds in PAST-iEAPs. We introduced a variety of conductive materials for modification. The results showed that the modified PAST-iEAPs had good tensile strength (about 1.45 MPa), and their self-healing efficiency was about 92% after 24 h of self-healing at room temperature. Especially, PAST-iEAPs had an excellent electromechanical performance. Under 10 V DC voltage, the maximum deflection angle (128 degrees) and maximum output force (38.326 mN) were 1.8 times and 2.1 times higher than those without modification. This work illustrated that PAST-iEAPs with low cost, easy preparation, and good biocompatibility have great potential in the research fields of soft robots and biomedical devices.
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