Polymeric materials capable of spontaneously healing physical damages and restoring
various functions have been attracting growing interest. Among these, the category of water …

Organic coatings are susceptible to damage in the form of cracking, leading to the decline
and ultimate failure of functionality, and incurring enormous repair costs. Self-healing …

High‐performance elastomers have gained significant interest because of their wide
applications in industry and our daily life. However, it remains a great challenge to fabricate …

The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has
been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and …

Self-healing soft electronic and robotic devices can, like human skin, recover autonomously
from damage. While current devices use a single type of dynamic polymer for all functional …

The huge consumption and rapid expansion of polymeric materials in the world have
caused pervasive environmental pollution and severe waste of material resources, urging …

Supramolecular plastics (SMPs) can be made mechanically robust, repairable, and
recyclable, rendering themselves promising alternatives to their conventional predecessors …

Substituted six-membered cyclic hydrocarbons are common constituents of biologically
active compounds. Although methods for the synthesis of thermodynamically favored …

The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

To impart self-healing polymers largely adjustable dynamicity and mechanical performance,
here we develop libraries of catalyst-free reversible polythioureas directly from commodity 1 …