Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Vascular smooth muscle-inspired architecture enables soft yet tough self-healing materials for durable capacitive strain-sensor

  • FuYao Sun,
  • LongFei Liu,
  • Tong Liu,
  • XueBin Wang,
  • Qi Qi,
  • ZuSheng Hang,
  • Kai Chen,
  • JianHua Xu,
  • JiaJun Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35810-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Catastrophically mechanical failure, of soft self-healing materials often stems from its poor resistance to crack, propagation. Here, the authors present a strategy of surpassing trade-off, between soft self-healing and high fracture toughness, enabling the, conversion of soft and weak into soft yet tough self-healing materials.