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Dual physical cross-linked self-healing elastomer for the triple shape memory

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Self-healing materials can autonomously heal injury like organism, which have attracted increasing attention from academics and industry engineers. However, the mechanical property and self-healing ability of the self-healing material is hard to be reconciled. Here, we report a simple approach to fabricate fast self-healing materials with high mechanical strength and improved triple shape memory effect by incorporation of nanoclay into a polymer matrix. The nanocomposite was prepared by in situ polymerization of poly(ethylene glycol) 400 methyl ether acrylate (mPEG-acrylate) and acryloylmorpholine (ACMO) in the presence of nanoclay. The thus obtained composite exhibits remarkable mechanical properties of an optimistic maximum tensile strength of ~ 8.9 MPa, and high healing efficiency of ~ 99.6% can be achieved after healing for only 1 min at room temperature. This strategy provides insights for the preparation of high-strength, multi-shape memory and fast self-healing composites.

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The authors thank the Key Natural Science Foundation of YIT (2020YITSRFZD101) and the Key Science and Technology Project of Hebei Education Department (ZD2019301).

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JX was responsible for conceptualization, investigation, data curation, visualization, writing the original draft, and writing, reviewing and editing. Z-XZ was involved in investigation, formal analysis and visualization. Y-JN, Y-XL and YF carried out investigation. W-PZ took part in formal analysis, writing the original draft, resources, supervision and funding acquisition. X-qF participated in validation, data curation, writing the original draft, conceptualization, validation, writing, reviewing and editing, project administration and funding acquisition.

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Xu, J., Zhang, Z., Nie, Y. et al. Dual physical cross-linked self-healing elastomer for the triple shape memory. J Mater Sci 57, 11430–11442 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07243-3

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