4D Printing of Adaptable “Living” Materials Based on Alkoxyamine Chemistry [data]

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4D printing has emerged as a powerful strategy capable of revolutionizing additive manufacturing by enabling objects to dynamically transform over time on demand. Despite significant progress, the full potential remains unrealized, particularly in the utilization of dynamic covalent chemistry. This study introduces a new approach using a multifunctional crosslinker with alkoxyamine functionalities for 4D printing. Digital light processing (DLP) has been employed for high-resolution printing of complex objects. Leveraging alkoxyamine bonds' dynamic and living characteristics, the printed structures can be further modified through nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) using styrene and nitroxide exchange reactions (NER). The resulting "living" printed structures exhibit the unique ability to undergo both "growth" and "degrowth", dynamically adapting their size as well as the reduced Young’s Modulus across a wide range (770 kPa to 1.2 GPa). The chain extension by NMP and softening by NER have been carefully characterized by IR and EPR spectroscopy. The presented approach opens avenues for the development of 4D printed structures with complex adaptive systems, showcasing enormous potential in a wide range of fields.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/RFGMKY
Related Identifier IsCitedBy https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202315238
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Creator Tran, Hoang Bao Duc ORCID logo; Vazquez-Martel, Clara ORCID logo; Catt, Samantha O. ORCID logo; Jia, Yixuan ORCID logo; Tsotsalas, Manuel ORCID logo; Spiegel, Christoph A. ORCID logo; Blasco, Eva ORCID logo
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Blasco, Eva
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG): SPP 2206 – DFG Priority program “Cooperative Multistage Multistable Microactuator Systems” (BL1604/5-2) ; Excellence Cluster “3D Matter Made to Order” (EXC-2082/1-390761711) ; Carl-Zeiss-Foundation: Focus@HEiKA
Rights CC BY 4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Contact Blasco, Eva (Heidelberg University)
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Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences