Self-healing polymers

S Wang, MW Urban - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Self-healing is the capability of a material to recover from physical damage. Both physical
and chemical approaches have been used to construct self-healing polymers. These include …

Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole

S Cho, SY Hwang, DX Oh, J Park - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Intrinsic self-healing polymeric materials are substances that relieve external stress and
restore their original mechanical properties after extreme damage via dynamic covalent …

Ultrahigh mechanical strength and robust room-temperature self-healing properties of a polyurethane–graphene oxide network resulting from multiple dynamic bonds

X Zhu, W Zhang, G Lu, H Zhao, L Wang - Acs Nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Addressing the conflict between achieving high mechanical properties and room-
temperature self-healing ability is extremely significant to achieving a breakthrough in the …

Ultrarobust, tough and highly stretchable self-healing materials based on cartilage-inspired noncovalent assembly nanostructure

Y Wang, X Huang, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Self-healing materials integrated with excellent mechanical strength and simultaneously
high healing efficiency would be of great use in many fields, however their fabrication has …

A fast room‐temperature self‐healing glassy polyurethane

JH Xu, JY Chen, YN Zhang, T Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We designed and synthesized a colorless transparent glassy polyurethane assembled using
low‐molecular‐weight oligomers carrying a large number of loosely packed weak hydrogen …

Mechano-responsive hydrogen-bonding array of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer captures both strength and self-healing

Y Eom, SM Kim, M Lee, H Jeon, J Park, ES Lee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Self-repairable materials strive to emulate curable and resilient biological tissue; however,
their performance is currently insufficient for commercialization purposes because mending …

Self‐healing, reconfigurable, thermal‐switching, transformative electronics for health monitoring

L Yang, Z Wang, H Wang, B Jin, C Meng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soft, deformable electronic devices provide the means to monitor physiological information
and health conditions for disease diagnostics. However, their practical utility is limited due to …

Material properties of functional polyethylenes from transition-metal-catalyzed ethylene–polar monomer copolymerization

C Tan, C Zou, C Chen - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polyethylenes enjoy wide applications due to their many superior properties. The
incorporation of some polar functional groups into the otherwise nonpolar polyethylene …

An ionic cluster strategy for performance improvements and product morphology control in metal-catalyzed olefin–polar monomer copolymerization

C Tan, C Zou, C Chen - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
Product morphology control represents a critical challenge for polyolefin production, but it
has remained largely unexplored in the field of ethylene–polar monomer copolymerization …

Robust, healable, self-locomotive integrated robots enabled by noncovalent assembled gradient nanostructure

Y Wang, G Su, J Li, Q Guo, Y Miao, X Zhang - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Integration, being lightweight, and intelligence are important orientations for the future
advancement of soft robots. However, existing soft robots are generally hydrogels or silicone …