Temperature-insensitive silicone composites as ballistic witness materials: the impact of water cont
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Mrozek, Randy A.
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Tough, Rapidly Swelling Thermoplastic Elastomer Hydrogels for Hemorrhage Control
We present a novel elastomer with an amphiphilic triblock/graft architecture, allowing it to rapidly swell in water and form a tough hydrogel. The design was motivated by uncontrolled hemorrhage, responsible for 80–90% of potentially survivable deaths of US soldiers over the past 15 years. The polymer is 5.7 times as absorbent and 3 times as tough as a state of the art gauze-based hemostatic dressing. It swells to equilibrium within seconds in phosphate buffered saline due to a microphase-separated morphology featuring a continuous mobile ionic phase supported by hydrophobic glassy domains and rubbery linkages, as observed by transmission electron microscopy and small-angle neutron scattering. Thickness-dependent swelling is as much as an order of magnitude faster than many tough hydrogels in the literature, yet toughness is comparable as a function of water content. Furthermore, the polymer is combined with gauze to form a rapidly swelling, fiber-reinforced hydrogel composite with promising mechanical properties.
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A solid-state dielectric elastomer switch for soft logic
In this paper, we describe a stretchable solid-state electronic switching material that operates at high voltage potentials, as well as a switch material benchmarking technique that utilizes a modular dielectric elastomer (artificial muscle) ring oscillator. The solid-state switching material was integrated into our oscillator, which self-started after 16 s and performed 5 oscillations at a frequency of 1.05 Hz with 3.25 kV DC input. Our materials-by-design approach for the nickel filled polydimethylsiloxane based switch has resulted in significant improvements over previous carbon grease-based switches in four key areas, namely, sharpness of switching behavior upon applied stretch, magnitude of electrical resistance change, ease of manufacture, and production rate. Switch lifetime was demonstrated to be in the range of tens to hundreds of cycles with the current process. An interesting and potentially useful strain-based switching hysteresis behavior is also presented.
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