Intrinsically self-healing polymers: from mechanistic insight to current challenges

B Li, PF Cao, T Saito, AP Sokolov - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-healing materials open new prospects for more sustainable technologies with improved
material performance and devices' longevity. We present an overview of the recent …

Dynamic siloxane materials: From molecular engineering to emerging applications

B Yi, S Wang, C Hou, X Huang, J Cui, X Yao - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The exceptional physicochemical and mechanical properties have enabled siloxane-based
materials a wide range of applications in daily life and industry. With the rapid progress of …

Polymers with dynamic bonds: adaptive functional materials for a sustainable future

S Samanta, S Kim, T Saito… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymeric materials play critical role in many current technologies. Among them, adaptive
polymeric materials with dynamic (reversible) bonds exhibit unique properties and provide …

Unravelling the mechanism of viscoelasticity in polymers with phase-separated dynamic bonds

S Ge, S Samanta, B Li, GP Carden, PF Cao… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Incorporation of dynamic (reversible) bonds within polymer structure enables properties
such as self-healing, shape transformation, and recyclability. These dynamic bonds …

Interfacial interactions, crystallization and molecular mobility in nanocomposites of Poly (lactic acid) filled with new hybrid inclusions based on graphene oxide and …

Z Terzopoulou, PA Klonos, A Kyritsis, A Tziolas… - Polymer, 2019 - Elsevier
Polymer composites based on poly (lactic acid)(PLA) and three fillers, graphene oxide (GO),
silica nanoparticles, and a nanohybrid consisting of silica doped GO, were prepared and …

Fragile glass formation and non-Arrhenius upturns in ethylene vitrimers revealed by dielectric spectroscopy

B Soman, KS Schweizer, CM Evans - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Vitrimers, dynamic networks with bonds that exchange without breaking, are an emerging
class of reprocessable and recyclable polymers. The dynamics in such materials are …

Influence of molecular architecture on the viscoelastic properties of polymers with phase-separated dynamic bonds

P Carden, S Ge, S Zhao, B Li, S Samanta… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymers with dynamic bonds attract significant attention due to their many unique
properties, such as self-healing and recycling. However, understanding microscopic …

Elastic single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes: toward a versatile approach for intrinsically stretchable functional polymers

PF Cao, B Li, G Yang, S Zhao, J Townsend… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fabrication of stretchable functional polymeric materials usually relies on the physical
adhesion between functional components and elastic polymers, while the interfacial …

Viscoelasticity in associating oligomers and polymers: experimental test of the bond lifetime renormalization model

S Ge, M Tress, K Xing, PF Cao, T Saito, AP Sokolov - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent findings that the association bond lifetimes τα* in associating polymers diverge from
their supramolecular network relaxation times τc challenge past theories. The bond lifetime …

Critical role of the interfacial layer in associating polymers with microphase separation

S Ge, S Samanta, M Tress, B Li, K Xing… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polymers with dynamic (transient) bonds, often called associating polymers, have been
attracting significant attention in recent years due to their unique viscoelastic properties, self …