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Highly thermoconductive yet ultraflexible polymer composites with superior mechanical properties and autonomous self-healing functionality<i>via</i>a binary filler strategy

Dong Wang, Dingyao Liu, Jian‐Hua Xu, Jiajun Fu, Kai Wu

2021Materials Horizons88 citationsDOI

Abstract

It is still a formidable challenge to develop ideal thermal dissipation materials with simultaneous high thermal conductivity, excellent mechanical softness and toughness, and spontaneous self-healing. Herein, we report the introduction of sandwich-like boron nitride nanosheets-liquid metal binary fillers into an artificial poly(urea-urethane) elastomer to address the above issue, which confers the composite elastomer with a unique thermal-mechanical-healing combination, including a low modulus, high in-plane thermal conductivity and high mass loading of rigid fillers but self-recoverability and room-temperature self-healing.

Topics & Concepts

Materials scienceComposite materialElastomerSelf-healingThermal conductivityBoron nitrideComposite numberToughnessModulusPolymerFiller (materials)MedicinePathologyAlternative medicineThermal properties of materialsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsDielectric materials and actuators