Accelerated Self-Healing and Property Recovery in Brush Particle Solids Featuring Brush Dispersity.
ACS Macro Lett
Chemistry Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Published: March 2025
Brush particles, hybrid materials consisting of polymer chains tethered to particle surfaces, offer tunable properties that make them promising candidates for advanced functional materials. This study investigated the role of chain dispersity in the viscoelastic self-healing of poly (methyl acrylate) (PMA)-based brush particle solids. Increasing the molecular weight dispersity of grafted chains significantly enhanced both strain-to-fracture and toughness of brush particle solids, while the elastic modulus and glass transition temperature were independent of chain dispersity. Cut-and-adhere testing revealed a significant acceleration of the rate of toughness recovery in high-dispersity systems as compared to low-dispersity analogs for which toughness recovery markedly lagged the recovery of Young's modulus. The results suggest that structure and property recovery in brush particle solids are sensitive to the dynamical heterogeneity of brush canopies and highlight the role of molecular weight dispersity as a design parameter to enable hybrid materials with advanced self-healing ability.
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