Abstract
Well-defined sustainable and recyclable thermoset elastomers derived from cellulose, fatty acid and furfural were successfully prepared via photoinduced metal-free ATRP and Diels-Alder (DA) reaction. Firstly, metal free ATRP was applied to prepare a range of thermoplastic cellulose graft copolymers with furfural groups. Then, a modified epoxidized soybean oil bearing 6-maleimidohexanoic group (ESOM) as a crosslinker was employed to perform DA reaction with furfural groups in these cellulose graft copolymers, by which the copolymer formed the dynamic crosslinked network and achieved the thermoset elastomers. The dynamic crosslinked network formed by DA reaction not only could increase the chain entanglement that was associated with the improved flexibility and could contribute to enhancing the mechanical strength up to 166 %, but also endowed these thermoset elastomers with recyclability, excellent shape memory and self-healing property. These thermoset elastomers can be used as self-healing strain sensor and wearable sensing devices after compounding them with carbon nanotubes.
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