Thermoset Light-Responsive Biopolyester Composite with Intrinsic Permanent Shape Reconfigurability and Degradability

IF 5.1 1区化学 Q1 POLYMER SCIENCE Macromolecules Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.4c03088

Nur Syahirra Nordin, Xiangping Chen, Mun-Oon Fong, Tow-Jie Lok, Yaoting Xue, Siyang Li, Tao Feng, Yifeng Shen, Qiannan Hu, Kaihang Zhang, Qian Zhao, Tuck-Whye Wong, Jie-Wei Wong, Tiefeng Li

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Abstract

Adding functional nanoparticles to polymers is a popular approach to indirectly trigger the shape-memory effect (SME). Existing shape-memory polymer composites usually involve the use of solvents, catalysts, and initiators during synthesis. By polyesterification, in this article, we present a sustainable polyester matrix for a shape-memory polymer (SMP) composite consisting of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which possess combined features. Owing to the photothermal conversion capability of the CNTs, selective triggering of the shape-memory behavior in different regions of the composite and photoweldability are made possible. Leveraging its intrinsic dynamic bond nature, the material can be reshaped at least five times, which is comparable with existing bond exchange networks. Additionally, ester bonds within the material enable hydrolytic degradation after its applications. We envision that this material design principle can be potentially applied on the fabrication of stimuli-responsive actuators for soft robots with complex geometries that also require degradability.

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Macromolecules 工程技术-高分子科学

CiteScore

9.30

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16.40%

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942

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2 months

期刊介绍： Macromolecules publishes original, fundamental, and impactful research on all aspects of polymer science. Topics of interest include synthesis (e.g., controlled polymerizations, polymerization catalysis, post polymerization modification, new monomer structures and polymer architectures, and polymerization mechanisms/kinetics analysis); phase behavior, thermodynamics, dynamic, and ordering/disordering phenomena (e.g., self-assembly, gelation, crystallization, solution/melt/solid-state characteristics); structure and properties (e.g., mechanical and rheological properties, surface/interfacial characteristics, electronic and transport properties); new state of the art characterization (e.g., spectroscopy, scattering, microscopy, rheology), simulation (e.g., Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, multi-scale/coarse-grained modeling), and theoretical methods. Renewable/sustainable polymers, polymer networks, responsive polymers, electro-, magneto- and opto-active macromolecules, inorganic polymers, charge-transporting polymers (ion-containing, semiconducting, and conducting), nanostructured polymers, and polymer composites are also of interest. Typical papers published in Macromolecules showcase important and innovative concepts, experimental methods/observations, and theoretical/computational approaches that demonstrate a fundamental advance in the understanding of polymers.