Materials with switchable mechanical properties are widespread in living organisms and
endow many species with traits that are essential for their survival. Many of the mechanically …

Mimicking natural structures has been highly pursued in the fabrication of synthetic
polymeric materials due to its potential in breaking the bottlenecks in mechanical properties …

Covalent cross-linking of rubbers is essential for obtaining high resilience and
environmental resistance but prevents healing and recycling. Integrating dynamic covalent …

Reinforcing rubbers and expanding their application galleries are two important issues in
material science and engineering. In this work, we demonstrate a bioinspired design of high …

Growing environmental awareness imposes on polymer scientists the development of novel
materials that show a longer lifetime and that can be easily recycled. These challenges were …

The incorporation of metal complexes into polymers leads to functional materials; whereas,
the properties of polymers–easy processability, light weight or the adjustable molar mass …

Marine mussels tether to seashore surfaces with byssal threads, proteinaceous fibers that
effectively dissipate energy from crashing waves. Protein–metal coordination bonds have …

It is a challenge to simultaneously achieve high stretchability, high modulus, and
recoverability of polymers. Inspired by the multiphase structure of mussel byssus cuticles, we …

It is still a huge challenge to implement multiple energy dissipation mechanisms into
polymers toward strong yet tough elastomers. Here, we describe a biomimetic design for …

Vitrimer, featured with many fascinating properties, is a novel class of polymer, since their
network topologies can be rearranged at elevated temperatures without the loss of …