Soft Materials with Recoverable Shape Factors from Extreme Distortion States

• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503320
• Publication Date: 2016-01-20T06:24:47Z
• Authors: Jonathan Goff; Santy Sulaiman; Barry Arkles; James P. Lewicki
• Keywords: Distortion (music); Soft materials

Elastomeric polysiloxane nanocomposites with elongations of >5000% (more than 3× greater any previously reported material) excellent shape recovery are presented. Highly deformable materials desirable for the fabrication stretchable implants and microfluidic devices. No crosslinking or domain formation is observed by a variety analytical techniques, suggesting that their elastomeric behavior caused polymer chain entanglements.