Self‐Healing Materials: Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self‐Healing Capability (Adv. Mater. 46/2016)
Source abstract
Abstract
On page 10142, D. Floreano and co-workers demonstrate a variable-stiffness fiber with self-healing capabilities based on low-melting-point alloys and silicone. The fiber can be soft and adaptable enough to the human body, but also rigid enough to withstand loads and keep a specific shape; it can become >700 times softer and >400 times more deformable when heated above the alloy's melting temperature.
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Research context
OpenAlex topics: Polymer composites and self-healing · Synthesis and properties of polymers
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Affiliations
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Lausanne 1015 Switzerland
Center for Micro‐BioRobotics Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Pontedera 56025 Italy
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