{"id":179424,"date":"2023-12-29T04:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T10:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/developing-a-futuristic-elastomer-with-ultrahigh-strain-induced-crystallization"},"modified":"2023-12-29T04:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T10:24:59","slug":"developing-a-futuristic-elastomer-with-ultrahigh-strain-induced-crystallization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/developing-a-futuristic-elastomer-with-ultrahigh-strain-induced-crystallization","title":{"rendered":"Developing a futuristic elastomer with ultrahigh strain-induced crystallization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/developing-a-futuristic-elastomer-with-ultrahigh-strain-induced-crystallization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strain-induced crystallization can strengthen, toughen, and facilitate an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S135943112301373X\">elastocaloric effect<\/a> in elastomers. The resulting crystallinity can be induced by mechanical stretching in common elastomers that are typically below 20%, with a stretchability plateau.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adj0411\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, Chase M. Hartquist and a team of scientists in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mechanical+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mechanical engineering<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+sciences\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials sciences<\/a> at MIT and Duke University in the U.S. used a class of elastomers formed by end-linking to achieve a percentage of strain-induced crystallinity.<\/p>\n<p>The deswollen and end-linked star elastomer abbreviated as DELSE reached an ultrahigh stretchability to scale, beyond the saturated limit of common elastomers, to promote a high elastocaloric effect with an adiabatic temperature change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strain-induced crystallization can strengthen, toughen, and facilitate an elastocaloric effect in elastomers. The resulting crystallinity can be induced by mechanical stretching in common elastomers that are typically below 20%, with a stretchability plateau. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Chase M. Hartquist and a team of scientists in mechanical engineering and materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}