Adhesion and Surface Interactions of a Self‐Healing Polymer with Multiple Hydrogen‐Bonding Groups

By Ali Faghihnejad, K. Feldman, Jing Yu, M. Tirrell, J. Israelachvili, C. Hawker, E. Kramer, Hongbo Zeng. 2014

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The surface properties and self‐adhesion mechanism of self‐healing poly(butyl acrylate) (PBA) copolymers containing comonomers with 2‐ureido‐4[1H]‐pyrimidinone quadruple hydrogen bonding groups (UPy) are investigated using a surface forces apparatus (SFA) coupled with a top‐view optical microscope. The surface energies of PBA–UPy4.0 and PBA–UPy7.2 (with mole percentages of UPy 4.0% and 7.2%, respectively) are estimated to be 45–56 mJ m−2 under dry condition by contact angle measurements using a three probe liquid method and also by contact and adhesion mechanics tests, as compared to the reported literature value of 31–34 mJ m−2 for PBA, an increase that is attributed to the strong UPy–UPy H‐bonding interactions. The adhesion strengths of PBA–UPy polymers depend on the UPy content, contact time, temperature and humidity level. Fractured PBA–UPy films can fully recover their self‐adhesion strength to 40, 81, and 100% in 10 s, 3 h, and 50 h, respectively, under almost zero external load. The fracture patterns (i.e., viscous fingers and highly “self‐organized” parallel stripe patterns) have implications for fabricating patterned surfaces in materials science and nanotechnology. These results provide new insights into the fundamental understanding of adhesive mechanisms of multiple hydrogen‐bonding polymers and development of novel self‐healing and stimuli‐responsive materials.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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• Shape memory polymers for composites (2018, background): “Generally, self-healing is based on a reversible physical effect, that is, expansion occurring near a crack, or on reversible bonds, including reversible covalent bonds [155,156], ionic bonds [157], metal coordinate bonds [158,159] and supramolecular interactions [160,161].”