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 …

Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional GelMA platforms with nanomaterials for advanced tissue therapeutics

AG Kurian, RK Singh, KD Patel, JH Lee, HW Kim - Bioactive materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymeric hydrogels are fascinating platforms as 3D scaffolds for tissue repair and delivery
systems of therapeutic molecules and cells. Among others, methacrylated gelatin (GelMA) …

Strong and tough supramolecular covalent adaptable networks with room‐temperature closed‐loop recyclability

Z Zhang, D Lei, C Zhang, Z Wang, Y Jin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of closed‐loop chemically recyclable plastics (CCRPs) that can be
widely used in daily life can be a fundamental solution to the global plastic waste crisis …

Self-healing polymers

S Wang, MW Urban - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Self-healing is the capability of a material to recover from physical damage. Both physical
and chemical approaches have been used to construct self-healing polymers. These include …

Elastic vitrimers: Beyond thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers

J Luo, Z Demchuk, X Zhao, T Saito, M Tian, AP Sokolov… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Thermoset elastomers are widely used in industry and frontier research due to their
advantage of mechanical robustness, high thermal/chemical resistance, and good …

Electronic skin: recent progress and future prospects for skin‐attachable devices for health monitoring, robotics, and prosthetics

JC Yang, J Mun, SY Kwon, S Park, Z Bao… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in electronic skin or e‐skin research is broadly reviewed, focusing on
technologies needed in three main applications: skin‐attachable electronics, robotics, and …

Environment tolerant conductive nanocomposite organohydrogels as flexible strain sensors and power sources for sustainable electronics

H Sun, Y Zhao, S Jiao, C Wang, Y Jia… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Conductive hydrogels (CHs) have been highlighted in the design of flexible strain sensors
and stretchable triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) on the basis of their excellent …

Adaptable crosslinks in polymeric materials: resolving the intersection of thermoplastics and thermosets

GM Scheutz, JJ Lessard, MB Sims… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The classical division of polymeric materials into thermoplastics and thermosets based on
covalent network structure often implies that these categories are distinct and irreconcilable …

Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability

H Guo, Y Han, W Zhao, J Yang, L Zhang - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Developing autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions is
challenging because the reconstruction of interaction in material for self-healing will …