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Macromolecularly Engineered Thermoreversible Heterogeneous Self-Healable Networks Encapsulating Reactive Multidentate Block Copolymer-Stabilized Carbon Nanotubes

Authors: Zhang GPatel TNellepalli PBhagat SHase HJazani AMSalzmann IYe ZOh JK


Affiliations

1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6, Canada.
2 Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, H4B 1R6, Canada.
3 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada.

Description

The development of heterogeneous covalent adaptable networks (CANs) embedded with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that undergo reversible dissociation/recombination through thermoreversibility has been significantly explored. However, the carbon nanotube (CNT)-incorporation methods based on physical mixing and chemical modification could result in either phase separation due to structural incompatibility or degrading conjugation due to a disruption of p-network, thus lowering their intrinsic charge transport properties. To address this issue, the versatility of a macromolecular engineering approach through thermoreversibility by physical modification of CNT surfaces with reactive multidentate block copolymers (rMDBCs) is demonstrated. The formed CNTs stabilized with rMDBCs (termed rMDBC/CNT colloids) bearing reactive furfuryl groups is functioned as a multicrosslinker that reacts with a polymaleimide to fabricate robust heterogeneous polyurethane (PU) networks crosslinked through dynamic Diels-Alder (DA)/retro-DA chemistry. Promisingly, the fabricated PU network gels in which CNTs through rMDBC covalently embedded are flexible and robust to be bendable as well as exhibit self-healing elasticity and enhanced conductivity.


Keywords: Diels-Alder reactioncarbon nanotubesconductivitymacromolecular engineeringpolyurethaneself-healingthermoreversibility


Links

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33988899/

DOI: 10.1002/marc.202000514