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Self-Healing of Ionomeric Polymers with Carbon Fibers from Medium-Velocity Impact and Resistive Heating

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dc.contributor Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (CIMSS)
dc.creator Sundaresan, Vishnu Baba
dc.creator Morgan, Andrew
dc.creator Castellucci, Matt
dc.date 2018-04-30T12:35:49Z
dc.date 2018-04-30T12:35:49Z
dc.date 2013-06-20
dc.date 2018-04-29T08:41:53Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:54:39Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:54:39Z
dc.identifier Vishnu Baba Sundaresan, Andrew Morgan, and Matt Castellucci, “Self-Healing of Ionomeric Polymers with Carbon Fibers from Medium-Velocity Impact and Resistive Heating,” Smart Materials Research, vol. 2013, Article ID 271546, 12 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/271546
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82948
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/271546
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dc.description Self-healing materials science has seen significant advances in the last decade. Recent efforts have demonstrated healing in polymeric materials through chemical reaction, thermal treatment, and ultraviolet irradiation. The existing technology for healing polymeric materials through the aforementioned mechanisms produces an irreversible change in the material and makes it unsuitable for subsequent healing cycles. To overcome these disadvantages, we demonstrate a new composite self-healing material made from an ionomer (Surlyn) and carbon fiber that can sustain damage from medium-velocity impact and heal from the energy of the impact. Furthermore, the carbon fiber embedded in the polymer matrix results in resistive heating of the polymer matrix locally, melts the ionomer matrix around the damage, and heals the material at the damaged location. This paper presents methods to melt-process Surlyn with carbon fiber and demonstrates healing in the material through medium-velocity impact tests, resistive heating, and imaging through electron and optical microscopy. A new metric for quantifying self-healing in the sample, called width-heal ratio, is developed, and we report that the Surlyn-carbon fiber-based material under an optimal rate of heating and at the correct temperature has a width-heal ratio of >0.9, thereby demonstrating complete recovery from the damage.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Hindawi
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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dc.rights Copyright © 2013 Vishnu Baba Sundaresan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.title Self-Healing of Ionomeric Polymers with Carbon Fibers from Medium-Velocity Impact and Resistive Heating
dc.title Smart Materials Research
dc.type Article - Refereed
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