<p>Self-healing polymer materials, capable of autonomously repairing physical damage, have been broadly applied in modern technologies. In various self-healing systems, metal–ligand coordination bonds have been extensively utilized for their advantages of rich metal–ligand species and functionalities. However, common metal-ligand coordination either has excessively stable bond strengths or is too weak to construct self-healing materials. This work introduces coordination metals into liquid metals (LMs) to form multi-component LMs (mLMs), which creatively leverage the inherent fluidity of mLMs to convert common metal-ligand coordination (e.g., silver-sulfur and zinc/copper-imidazole systems) into reversible interfacial coordination. Such dynamic coordination successfully offers the fantastic self-healing efficiency over 90% for general polymers. Considering the ultra-high thermal conductivity of mLMs, self-healable thermal interface materials (TIMs) are obtained, which successfully address the long-standing challenge of the irreversible damage in long-term used TIMs. The self-healable TIMs can lower the peak temperature of the central processing unit (CPU) by 20 <sup>o</sup>C under extreme conditions for long time (accumulated 16 hours thermal shock, −10 <sup>o</sup>C to 100 <sup>o</sup>C). This work provides a universal strategy for self-healing materials and greatly broadens the investigations of self-healing, coordination chemistry, liquid metal science, soft electronics, and thermal management materials.</p>

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A universal strategy towards self-healing materials via dynamic interfacial liquid metal coordination

  • Zhiwei Li,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Songlin Liu,
  • Jingyu Lan,
  • Yan Peng,
  • Jiuyang Zhang

摘要

Self-healing polymer materials, capable of autonomously repairing physical damage, have been broadly applied in modern technologies. In various self-healing systems, metal–ligand coordination bonds have been extensively utilized for their advantages of rich metal–ligand species and functionalities. However, common metal-ligand coordination either has excessively stable bond strengths or is too weak to construct self-healing materials. This work introduces coordination metals into liquid metals (LMs) to form multi-component LMs (mLMs), which creatively leverage the inherent fluidity of mLMs to convert common metal-ligand coordination (e.g., silver-sulfur and zinc/copper-imidazole systems) into reversible interfacial coordination. Such dynamic coordination successfully offers the fantastic self-healing efficiency over 90% for general polymers. Considering the ultra-high thermal conductivity of mLMs, self-healable thermal interface materials (TIMs) are obtained, which successfully address the long-standing challenge of the irreversible damage in long-term used TIMs. The self-healable TIMs can lower the peak temperature of the central processing unit (CPU) by 20 oC under extreme conditions for long time (accumulated 16 hours thermal shock, −10 oC to 100 oC). This work provides a universal strategy for self-healing materials and greatly broadens the investigations of self-healing, coordination chemistry, liquid metal science, soft electronics, and thermal management materials.