Alice Giannetti

Ms. Alice Giannetti


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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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21 January 2021 in Polymers
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EAEsteban Alejandro Araya-Hermosilla
Esteban Alejandro Araya-Hermosilla
AGAlice Giannetti
Alice Giannetti
GLGuilherme de Macedo Rooweder Lima
Guilherme de Macedo Rooweder Lima
FOFelipe Orozco
Felipe Orozco
Francesco PicchioniFrancesco Picchioni
Francesco Picchioni
Andrea PucciAndrea Pucci
Andrea Pucci
Among smart materials, self-healing is one of the most studied properties. A self-healing polymer can repair the cracks that occurred in the structure of the material. Polyketones, which are high-performance thermoplastic polymers, are a suitable material for a self-healing mechanism: a furanic pendant moiety can be introduced into the backbone and used as a diene for a temperature reversible Diels-Alder reaction with bismaleimide. The Diels-Alder adduct is formed at around 50 °C and broken at about 120 °C, giving an intrinsic, stimuli-responsive self-healing material triggered by temperature variations. Also, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is added to the polymer matrix (1.6–7 wt%), giving a reversible OFF-ON electrically conductive polymer network. Remarkably, the electrical conductivity is activated when reaching temperatures higher than 100 °C, thus suggesting applications as electronic switches based on self-healing soft devices.