Dynamic bonds: adaptable timescales for responsive materials

SV Wanasinghe, OJ Dodo… - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic bonds introduce unique properties such as self‐healing, recyclability, shape
memory, and malleability to polymers. Significant efforts have been made to synthesize a …

Complementary dynamic chemistries for multifunctional polymeric materials

B Zhang, N De Alwis Watuthanthrige… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic materials (DMs) or dynamers have potential applications across a broad range of
material science challenges. These applications include sustainable materials as a part of …

Viscoelasticity of polymers with dynamic covalent bonds: concepts and misconceptions

ML Martins, X Zhao, Z Demchuk, J Luo… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymers with dynamic covalent bonds are an exciting class of materials with properties and
potential applications that rapidly gain significant attention from diverse scientific …

Reprocessable, bio-based, self-blowing non-isocyanate polyurethane network foams from cashew nutshell liquid

NS Purwanto, Y Chen… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Growing environmental concerns and the goal of a circular economy for polymers
necessitate the development of biowaste-based materials and efficient recycling of polymer …

Covalent adaptable networks from renewable resources: Crosslinked polymers for a sustainable future

S Kamarulzaman, ZM Png, EQ Lim, IZS Lim, Z Li… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are crosslinked polymers with dynamic covalent
bonds, which enable these networks to exhibit both the durability of thermosets and the …

The crucial role in controlling the dynamic properties of polyester-based epoxy vitrimers: the density of exchangeable ester bonds (υ)

M Chen, H Si, H Zhang, L Zhou, Y Wu, L Song… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Vitrimer materials that obscure the line between ″thermoset ″and ″thermoplastic ″have
already attracted a great deal of interest since they exhibit dynamic properties of stress …

Critical effects of branch numbers at the cross-link point on the relaxation behaviors of transesterification vitrimers

T Isogai, M Hayashi - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Vitrimers are functional cross-linked materials, exhibiting reprocessability, recyclability, and
healability, and thus these are expected for application as sustainable materials. The …

Reprocessable and Chemically Recyclable Hard Vitrimers Based on Liquid‐Crystalline Epoxides

TE Trinh, K Ku, H Yeo - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid increase in demand for recyclable and reusable thermosets has necessitated the
development of materials with chemical structures that exhibit these features. Thus …

Creep mechanics of epoxy vitrimer materials

AM Hubbard, Y Ren, CR Picu… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Epoxy materials are an indispensable class of polymers due to their excellent mechanical
properties and high thermal resistance. However, traditional epoxy materials are typically …

Solvent-free preparation of imine vitrimers: leveraging benzoxazine crosslinking for melt processability and tunable mechanical performance

LJ Hamernik, W Guzman, JS Wiggins - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covalent adaptable networks, particularly imine vitrimers, have received considerable
attention for the design of recyclable and reprocessable thermoset-like materials. However …