The invention discloses a mechanical response luminescent
polymer based on an AIE
polycaprolactone molecular ring and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of mechanical response intelligent materials. The technical problems that an existing AIE-based mechanical response material is poor in
mechanical property, low in
response sensitivity and poor in cyclic reversibility are solved. The preparation method comprises the following steps: synthesizing linear
polycaprolactone with an AIE group by taking dihydric
alcohol containing an aggregation-induced emission group as an initiator; then preparing a linear precursor with polymerizable double bonds in a molecular
chain segment and alkynyl and azido at the
tail ends through multi-step
end group functionalization reaction; the preparation method comprises the following steps: cyclizing a linear precursor to obtain an AIE
polycaprolactone molecular ring containing double bonds; and finally, initiating double bonds on the ring through an initiator for
polymerization to form a
polymer network. The obtained material has very high elongation at break, high-sensitivity force-induced
fluorescence enhanced response and excellent
cycling stability, and can be widely applied to the fields of
stress sensing, damage diagnosis, soft robots and the like.