Reversible Diels-Alder Reaction To Control Wrinkle Patterns: From Dynamic Chemistry to Dynamic Patterns.

Hou, Honghao; Yin, Jie; Jiang, Xuesong · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A facile and robust strategy to produce a reversible wrinkle pattern is presented by controlling a dynamic D-A reaction between furan and maleimide. The smart surface with highly reversible morphology and tunable adhesion, wettability, self-healing, and transparency is realized by the thermoreversible generation and erasure of the wrinkle pattern, which might find broad applications in functional intelligent materials with properties that can be tuned on-demand without altering the material's intrinsic properties.