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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 34, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo1626
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52173066, 51921002, 92156011, 52130303]
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This study presents a synthetic material that mimics the soft elasticity and stretchability of human skin. The material shows stiffness at room temperature but can transition to soft elasticity through photo-induced changes. By controlling nanopatterns, this material can be used for applications in human skin and solar cell packaging.
Human skin is a remarkable example of a biological material that displays unique mechanical characters of both soft elasticity and stretchability. However, mimicking these features has been absent in photoresponsive soft matters. Here, we present one synthetic ABA-type triblock copolymer consisting of polystyrene as end blocks and one photoresponsive azopolymer as the middle block, which is stiffness at room temperature and shows a phototunable transition to soft elastics athermally. We have synthesized an elastics we term photoinduced soft elastomer, where the photo-evocable soft midblock of azopolymer and the glassy polystyrene domains act as elastic matrix and physical cross-linking junctions, respectively. On the basis of the photoswitchable transformation between stiffness and elasticity at room temperature, we demonstrated precise control over nanopatterns on nonplanar substrates especially adaptable in the human skin and fabrication of packaged perovskite solar cells, enabling the simple, human-friendly, and controllable approach to be promising for mechanically adaptable soft photonic and electronic packaging applications.
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