Adaption and self‐healing are two major principles in material science, often coupled with
the placement of supramolecular moieties within a material. Proper molecular design can …

Cross-linked rubbers used in everyday life, thermoset by nature, represent a major
environmental problem at their end of life. The European Union has introduced a hierarchy …

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

Introducing ionic associations is one of the most effective approaches to realize a self-
healing behavior for rubbers. However, most of commercial rubbers are nonpolar rubbers …

Noncovalent interactions can maintain the three-dimensional structures of
biomacromolecules (eg, polysaccharides and proteins) and control specific recognition in …

Maintenance-free self-healing elastomers that switch their mechanical properties on
demand would be extremely useful materials for improving the functionalities, safety, energy …

A huge challenge for developing self-healing elastomers is achieving a compromise
between mechanical properties and healing efficiency. Here, we report a class of high …

Currently used dielectric elastomers do not have the ability to self-heal after detrimental
events such as tearing or electrical breakdown, which are critical issues in relation to …

Self-healing polymers have attracted a lot of attentions in the past two decades, driven by
their intriguing applications, new synthetic approaches and understanding of nanoscale …

Rubber with excellent mechanical properties and self-healing ability could have great
applicability in the next generation of glove fabrication. Developing durable gloves with …