Issue 11, 2016

Heat-resistant polyurethane films with great electrostatic dissipation capacity and very high thermally reversible self-healing efficiency based on multi-furan and liquid multi-maleimide polymers

Abstract

Single-function, low temperature resistance and low self-healing efficiency are three big bottlenecks that restrict the applications of existing reversible self-healing polyurethane (PU) films in leading industries. Herein, starting with synthesizing new polymer with multi-furan rings (FPU) and liquid hyperbranched polysiloxane terminated by multi-maleimide (HSiNCM) as well as using acidified multi-walled carbon nanotubes (aCNTs) as the conductor, a new kind of thermally reversible self-healing PU film that simultaneously has good processing property, high thermal stability and great electrostatic dissipation capacity, coded as PU-DA-CNTs, was designed and synthesized. The thermally reversible ability of PU-DA-CNTs was based on the Diels–Alder (DA) reaction. With about 1.96–4.76 wt% aCNTs, the resultant PU-DA-CNT films have outstanding thermal stability; their initial decomposition temperatures are 283–298 °C, at least about 20–40 °C higher than those of reversible self-healing PU films in the literature; in addition, the cracks on the surface of the PU-DA-CNT film can be self-healed after the film was maintained at 130 °C for 5 min, and the self-healing efficiency of the 1st cycle is as high as 92.54%, almost the highest value for reversible self-healing materials reported to date. Multi-maleimide groups in PU-DA-CNTs provide higher proceeding possibility of the DA reaction between furan rings and maleimide groups, thus leading to a high self-healing efficiency. On the other hand, PU-DA-CNT films have outstanding electrostatic dissipation capacity; their surface resistance, static decay half-life and conductivity are 3.094 × 108 Ω, 0.07 s and 4.116 × 10−8 S cm−1, respectively. These attractive integrated performances of PU-DA-CNT films are proved to be derived from the special structure and advantages of FPU, HSiNCM and aCNTs.

Graphical abstract: Heat-resistant polyurethane films with great electrostatic dissipation capacity and very high thermally reversible self-healing efficiency based on multi-furan and liquid multi-maleimide polymers

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Jan 2016
Accepted
15 Feb 2016
First published
16 Feb 2016

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016,4, 4232-4241

Heat-resistant polyurethane films with great electrostatic dissipation capacity and very high thermally reversible self-healing efficiency based on multi-furan and liquid multi-maleimide polymers

G. Fu, L. Yuan, G. Liang and A. Gu, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 4232 DOI: 10.1039/C6TA00953K

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