Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 3040-3049Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15476
Keywords
flexible electronics; self-healing substrate; Diels-Alder chemistry; graphene
Funding
- NSFC-Guangdong Jointed Funding [U1601202]
- NSFC-Shenzhen Robot Jointed Funding [U1613215]
- Guangdong and Shenzhen Innovative Research Team Program [2011D052, KYPT20121228160843692]
- Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province [2014B030301014]
- R&D Funds for basic Research Program of Shenzhen [JCYJ20150401145529012, JCYJ20160331191741738, JSGG20160229194437896]
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The continuous evolution toward flexible electronics with mechanical robust property and restoring structure simultaneously places high demand on a set of polymeric material substrate. Herein, we describe a composite material composed of a polyurethane based on Diels-Alder chemistry (PU-DA) covalently linked with functionalized graphene nanosheets (FGNS), which shows mechanical robust and infrared (IR) laser self-healing properties at ambient conditions and is therefore suitable for flexible substrate applications. The mechanical strength can be tuned by varying the amount of FGNS and breaking strength can reach as high as 36 MPa with only 0.5 wt % FGNS loading. On rupture, the initial mechanical properties are restored with more than 96% healing efficiency after 1 min irradiation time by 980 nm IR laser. Especially, this is the highest value of healing efficiency reported in the self-healable materials based on DA chemistry systems until now, and the composite exhibits a high volume resistivity up to 5.6 x 10(11) Omega.cm even the loading of FGNS increased to 1.0 wt %. Moreover, the conductivity of the broken electric circuit which was fabricated by silver paste drop-cast on the healable composite substrate was completely recovered via IR laser irradiating bottom substrate mimicking human skin. These results demonstrate that the FGNS-PU-DA nanocomposite can be used as self-healing flexible substrate for the next generation of intelligent flexible electronics.
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