연구
Research Outcome
미래를 창조하는 포스텍 화학공학과
[Abstract]
For emerging biocompatible, wearable, and stretchable epidermal electronic devices, it is essential to realize novel stretchable conductors with the attributes of transparency, low-cost and nontoxic components, green-solvent processability, self-healing, and thermal stability. Although conducting materials–rubber composites, ionic hydrogels, organogels have been developed, no stretchable material system that meets all the outlined requirements has been reported. Here, a series of P(SPMA-r-MMA) polymers with different ratios of ionic side chains is designed and synthesized, and it is demonstrated that the resulting stretchable ionic conductors with glycerol are transparent, water processable, self-healable, and thermally stable due to the chemically linked ionic side chain, satisfying all of the aforementioned requirements. Among the series of polymer gels, the P(SPMA0.75-r-MMA0.25) gel shows optimum conductivity (6.7 × 10−4 S cm−1), stretchability (2636% of break at elongation), and self-healing (98.3% in 3 h) properties. Accordingly, the transparent and self-healable P(SPMA0.75-r-MMA0.25) gels are used to realize thermally robust actuators up to 100 °C and deformable and self-healable thermal sensors.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201906679
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adma.201906679