• 文献标题:   Reduced Graphene Oxide-Reinforced Polymeric Films with Excellent Mechanical Robustness and Rapid and Highly Efficient Healing Properties
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XIANG ZL, ZHANG L, LI YX, YUAN T, ZHANG WS, SUN JQ
  • 作者关键词:   hostguest system, layerbylayer assembly, materials science, nanofiller, selfhealing material
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Jilin Univ
  • 被引频次:   30
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.7b02970
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

The fabrication of nanofiller-reinforced intrinsic healable polymer composite films with both excellent mechanical robustness and highly efficient healability is challenging because the mobility of the polymer chains is suppressed by the incorporated nanofillers. In this study, we exploit the reversible host guest interactions between nanofillers and the matrix polymer films and report the fabrication of intrinsically healable, reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-reinforced polymer composite films capable of conveniently and repeatedly healing cuts of several tens of micrometers wide. The healable films can be prepared via layer-by-layer assembly of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) with complexes of branched poly(ethylenimine) grafted with ferrocene (bPEI-Fc) and RGO nanosheets modified with beta-cyclodextrin (RGO-CD) (denoted as bPEI-Fc&RGO-CD). The as-prepared PAA/bPEI-Fc&RGO-CD films are mechanically robust with a Young's modulus of 17.2 +/- 1.9 GPa and a hardness of 1.00 +/- 0.30 GPa. The healing process involves two steps: (i) healing of cuts in an oxidation condition in which the host guest interactions between bPEI-Fc and RGO-CD nanosheets are broken and the cuts on the films are healed; and (ii) reconstruction of host guest interactions between bPEI-Fc and RGO-CD nanosheets via reduction to restore the original mechanical robustness of the films.