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Thermally driven self-healing using copper nanofiber heater

  • Min Wook Lee
  • , Hong Seok Jo
  • , Sam S. Yoon*
  • , Alexander L. Yarin
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  • Korea University

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Abstract

Nano-textured transparent heaters made of copper nanofibers (CuNFs) are used to facilitate accelerated self-healing of bromobutyl rubber (BIIR). The heater and BIIR layer are separately deposited on each side of a transparent flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. A pre-notched crack on the BIIR layer was bridged due to heating facilitated by CuNFs. In the corrosion test, a cracked BIIR layer covered a steel substrate. An accelerated self-healing of the crack due to the transparent copper nanofiber heater facilitated an anti-corrosion protective effect of the BIIR layer.

Original languageEnglish
Article number011902
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume111
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017.07.3

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