Structure–reactivity–property relationships in covalent adaptable networks

V Zhang, B Kang, JV Accardo… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer networks built out of dynamic covalent bonds offer the potential to translate the
control and tunability of chemical reactions to macroscopic physical properties. Under …

On the welding of vitrimers: Chemistry, mechanics and applications

Q Shi, C Jin, Z Chen, L An… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Linear chains in thermoplastics make them relatively weak in performance but inherently
weldable and recyclable. By contrast, thermosets with permanently crosslinked networks …

A highly dynamic covalent polymer network without creep: mission impossible?

F Van Lijsebetten, T Debsharma… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic covalent polymer networks provide an interesting solution to the challenging
recyclability of thermosets and elastomers. One of the remaining design constraints …

Ultrastrong, high fire resistance, repairable, and recyclable fluorinated biobased polyimine networks

J Wang, H Ding, P Yu, Z Jia, C Wang, H Wang… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Traditional commercial thermosetting materials are currently facing significant challenges in
terms of reprocessing, degradation, and recycling because of a large demand of petroleum …

Combining associative and dissociative dynamic linkages in covalent adaptable networks from biobased 2, 5-furandicarboxaldehyde

MA Lucherelli, A Duval, L Averous - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Covalent adaptable networks (CAN) emerged as a recent class of polymers that combine
the most interesting advantages of thermosets and thermoplastics. In this frame, combining …

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 …

Turning lignin into a recyclable bioresource: transesterification vitrimers from lignins modified with ethylene carbonate

A Duval, W Benali, L Avérous - Green Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Kraft lignin (KL), an abundant and underutilized biobased aromatic resource, was valorized
into polyester vitrimers showing enhanced recyclability. KL was first modified with ethylene …

Structure, Dynamics, and Rheology of Vitrimers

J Xia, JA Kalow, M Olvera de la Cruz - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Vitrimers are associative covalent adaptable networks that undergo reversible bond-
exchange reactions while maintaining a fixed cross-linking density with changing …

High‐Performance Vitrimeric Benzoxazines for Sustainable Advanced Materials: Design, Synthesis, and Applications

FI Anagwu, VK Thakur… - … Materials and Engineering, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polybenzoxazines are high‐performance materials capable of replacing conventional
thermosets such as phenolics, epoxies, and bismaleimides in composites manufacturing …

Fast room‐temperature self‐healing vitrimers enabled by accelerated associative exchange kinetics

J Liu, JJ Li, ZH Luo, YN Zhou - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Enhanced dynamicity remains a matter of concern in vitrimer design for fast self-healing
materials. In this study, we fabricated pseudo-cyclic vinylogous urethane (VU) vitrimers with …