The ball-mill grinding (BMG) of polymers has a long history, starting with Staudinger
showing in the 1930s that polystyrene undergoes chain scission upon ball milling. However …

The shift towards renewable energy sources combined with other factors, such as
population increase, digitalisation, and a need to decrease carbon footprint, leads to …

Reactive processing provides a simple approach for grafting dynamic covalent cross-linkers
onto linear or branched polymers, resulting in covalent adaptable networks (CANs). We …

Copolymerization allows tuning polymer's properties and a synergetic effect may be
achieved for the resulting hybrid, ie, outperforming the properties of its parents as often …

Vitrimers offer possibilities for sustainable materials due to their reprocessability and
recyclability. However, enhancing both their mechanical strength and network dynamics …

Over the past decades, various industries shifted from traditional materials such as glass
and metals to thermoset polymers due to their excellent chemical resistance, thermal …

Catalyst‐free, radical‐based reactive processing is used to transform low‐density
polyethylene (LDPE) into polyethylene covalent adaptable networks (PE CANs) using a …

Soft actuators are widely employed in soft robotics, wearable sensors, and human–machine
interfaces. Being assembled upon stimuli-responsive materials, the state-of-the-art soft …

Over the past decade, research interest has grown rapidly in covalent adaptable networks,
called vitrimers, which can balance the processability and recyclability of thermoplastics with …

This study explores the use of chitosan as a sustainable alternative in the vitrimerization of
thermoset epoxy resins. Epoxy/chitosan vitrimer composites, with and without an external …