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    Elastomers develop stronger bonds of attachment

    By Marie JonesFebruary 12, 2021
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    Different kinds of bonds can link elastomer chains together, changing how the material behaves. (Credit: Yukikazu Takeoka)

    Elastomers are the soft, elastic materials, like gels and rubbers, that are found in automobile and airplane parts, in sports equipment, and are used to protect precision machinery and buildings against vibrations. Scientists now want to make them thinner and tougher, without losing elasticity. Nagoya University materials engineer Yukikazu Takeoka and colleagues reviewed the most recent efforts towards improving elastomers for the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

    Elastomers are made of many, long molecular chains of repeating subunits. They can undergo large deformations when stretched, returning to their original shape when the tension is released. They can do this because their molecular chains have enough mobility to stretch and crunch up.

    Elasticity and overall toughness depends on the interactions between the molecular chains inside the material. Scientists have been working on controlling how chains link together and interact in order to change elastomers’ mechanical properties.

    Takeoka and his team from Nagoya University’s department of molecular and macromolecular chemistry explain that elastomers can be made tougher by introducing strong hydrogen or ionic bonds that can reversibly link elastomer chains together. These reversible bonds attach and detach from the elastomer chains as the material deforms. Scientists have used hydrogen bonds to fabricate strong hydrogels that can deform up to 600% and return to their original state within three minutes at 37 degrees Celsius or a few seconds at 50 degrees Celsius.

    “Our review gives hints about the kind of molecular thinking that needs to go into making elastomers tougher,” says Takeoka.

    Elastomer chains can also be linked through ring-like ‘cyclic’ molecules, giving linked chains a large degree of flexibility and improved toughness. A team of scientists fabricated a very flexible elastomer by mixing solutions of polyethylene glycol and cyclic alpha-cyclodextrin in water.

    Takeoka and his colleagues suggest that further combining elastomers linked by reversible bonds and moving cyclic molecules could lead to even tougher elastomers with better elongation. “Our review emphasizes the importance of examining molecular behaviour in detail while designing polymer materials,” says Takeoka.

    Paper: Improvement of mechanical properties of elastic materials by chemical methods

    Further information
    Yukikazu Takeoka
    Nagoya University
    Email: ytakeoka@chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

    About Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Journal

    Open access journal STAM publishes outstanding research articles across all aspects of materials science, including functional and structural materials, theoretical analyses, and properties of materials.

    Chikashi Nishimura
    STAM Publishing Director
    NISHIMURA.Chikashi@nims.go.jp

    Press release distributed by ResearchSEA for Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

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