Sustainable polymers

AK Mohanty, F Wu, R Mincheva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

[HTML][HTML] Review of polymer technologies for improving the recycling and upcycling efficiency of plastic waste

H Jung, G Shin, H Kwak, LT Hao, J Jegal, HJ Kim… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Human society has become increasingly reliant on plastic because it allows for convenient
and sanitary living. However, recycling rates are currently low, which means that the majority …

Self-healable functional polymers and polymer-based composites

ZP Zhang, MZ Rong, MQ Zhang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymers and polymer composites with advanced functions have attracted great attention
following the development of modern science and technologies. Nevertheless, damages of …

Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole

S Cho, SY Hwang, DX Oh, J Park - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Intrinsic self-healing polymeric materials are substances that relieve external stress and
restore their original mechanical properties after extreme damage via dynamic covalent …

Significance of flexible substrates for wearable and implantable devices: recent advances and perspectives

M Hassan, G Abbas, N Li, A Afzal… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, flexible electronics have attracted significant research attention due to
their distinct features and emerging applications in numerous fields such as, flexible …

Mechano-responsive hydrogen-bonding array of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer captures both strength and self-healing

Y Eom, SM Kim, M Lee, H Jeon, J Park, ES Lee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Self-repairable materials strive to emulate curable and resilient biological tissue; however,
their performance is currently insufficient for commercialization purposes because mending …

A wearable sensor based on multifunctional conductive hydrogel for simultaneous accurate pH and tyrosine monitoring in sweat

Z Xu, X Qiao, R Tao, Y Li, S Zhao, Y Cai… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible and wearable sweat sensors have drawn extensive attention by virtue of their
continuous and real-time monitoring of molecular level information. However, current sweat …

Self‐healing soft sensors: from material design to implementation

M Khatib, O Zohar, H Haick - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The demand for interfacing electronics in everyday life is rapidly accelerating, with an ever‐
growing number of applications in wearable electronics and electronic skins for robotics …

Self-healing polymers through hydrogen-bond cross-linking: synthesis and electronic applications

L Chen, J Xu, M Zhu, Z Zeng, Y Song, Y Zhang… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, polymers capable of repeatedly self-healing physical damage and restoring
mechanical properties have attracted extensive attention. Among the various …

Recent advances and perspectives in sweat based wearable electrochemical sensors

AMV Mohan, V Rajendran, RK Mishra… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The majority of existing medical diagnosis depends on the blood analysis in centralized
sophisticated laboratories having bulky, complex, and time-consuming clinical instruments …