Advanced Materials for Use in Soft Self-Healing Devices

作者：Huynh, Tan-Phat^*; Sonar, Prashant; Haick, Hossam^*

来源：Advanced Materials, 2017, 29(19): 1604973.

DOI：10.1002/adma.201604973

• polymers
• self-healing
• sensors
• solar cells
• transistors
• wearable devices

Devices integrated with self-healing ability can benefit from long-term use as well as enhanced reliability, maintenance and durability. This progress report reviews the developments in the field of self-healing polymers/composites and wearable devices thereof. One part of the progress report presents and discusses several aspects of the self-healing materials chemistry (from non-covalent to reversible covalent-based mechanisms), as well as the required main approaches used for functionalizing the composites to enhance their electrical conductivity, magnetic, dielectric, electroactive and/or photoactive properties. The second and complementary part of the progress report links the self-healing materials with partially or fully self-healing device technologies, including wearable sensors, supercapacitors, solar cells and fabrics. Some of the strong and weak points in the development of each self-healing device are clearly highlighted and criticized, respectively. Several ideas regarding further improvement of soft self-healing devices are proposed.

• 出版日期2017-5-17