Table 1 Silicone elastomers prepared from telechelic/multi Si–H functional PDMS in presence of a platinum-divinyl tetramethyldisiloxane complex.

From: One reaction to make highly stretchable or extremely soft silicone elastomers from easily available materials

Sample

Precursor length (kDa)

Tensile strain (%)

Tensile strength (MPa)

Young´s modulus (MPa)

Ela_DMS-H11

1

71

0.24

0.37

Ela_DMS-H21

6

70

0.35

0.60

Ela_DMS-H25

14

235

0.49

0.40

Ela_DMS-H31

24

363

0.46

0.29

Ela_HMS-064

60

118

0.52

0.52

Ref_DMS-V25

14

127

0.54

0.84

Ref_DMS-V41

35

482

0.44

0.19

  1. Conventional elastomers (Ref_DMS-V25 and Ref_DMS-V41) were prepared as references from telechelic vinyl functional PDMS, a multi-Si–H functional PDMS, and a platinum catalyst.
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