Highly Transparent and Tough Filler Composite Elastomer
Inspired by the Cornea
Posted on 2020-02-25 - 17:43
We
propose a strategy to develop a colorless, transparent, and
tough composite elastomer inspired by the cornea, which is the transparent
front portion of the eyeball. The composite elastomer, in which 34
vol % hard silica particles with a uniform particle size are
dispersed as a filler in a low-crosslinking polymer network exhibits
a fracture energy that is ∼13.5 times higher than that of a
system without the silica particles. This strategy also makes the
elastomer optically transparent, because the light scattered by each
silica particle that forms an ordered structure in the polymer network
is cancelled by interference. This research may pave the way for the
development of optically transparent and durable materials for applications
such as advanced medical devices and soft robots.
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Watanabe, Kenta; Miwa, Eiji; Asai, Fumio; Seki, Takahiro; Urayama, Kenji; Nakatani, Tomotaka; et al. (2020). Highly Transparent and Tough Filler Composite Elastomer
Inspired by the Cornea. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00520