Supramolecular adhesive hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

Y Zhao, S Song, X Ren, J Zhang, Q Lin… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tissue engineering is a promising and revolutionary strategy to treat patients who suffer the
loss or failure of an organ or tissue, with the aim to restore the dysfunctional tissues and …

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 …

Dynamic covalent bonds in polymeric materials

P Chakma, D Konkolewicz - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic covalent bonds (DCBs) have received significant attention over the past decade.
These are covalent bonds that are capable of exchanging or switching between several …

Toward stimuli‐responsive dynamic thermosets through continuous development and improvements in covalent adaptable networks (CANs)

M Podgórski, BD Fairbanks, BE Kirkpatrick… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs), unlike typical thermosets or other covalently
crosslinked networks, possess a unique, often dormant ability to activate one or more forms …

Colorless, transparent, robust, and fast scratch‐self‐healing elastomers via a phase‐locked dynamic bonds design

Y Lai, X Kuang, P Zhu, M Huang, X Dong… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Robust self‐healing thermoplastic elastomers are expected to have repeated healing
capability, remarkable mechanical properties, transparency, and superior toughness. The …

A self-reinforcing and self-healing elastomer with high strength, unprecedented toughness and room-temperature reparability

Y Li, W Li, A Sun, M Jing, X Liu, L Wei, K Wu, Q Fu - Materials Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of intrinsic self-healing elastomers with simultaneous high mechanical
strength, toughness and room-temperature reparability remains a formidable challenge …

Research status of self-healing hydrogel for wound management: A review

A Zhang, Y Liu, D Qin, M Sun, T Wang… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wound management has attracted significant interest in view of the broad demand market.
Dressings are playing crucial roles in wounds management because they can protect the …

Superior toughness and fast self‐healing at room temperature engineered by transparent elastomers

SM Kim, H Jeon, SH Shin, SA Park, J Jegal… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The most important properties of self‐healing polymers are efficient recovery at room
temperature and prolonged durability. However, these two characteristics are contradictory …

Tough, photoluminescent, self-healing waterborne polyurethane elastomers resulting from synergistic action of multiple dynamic bonds

X Zhu, K Han, C Li, J Wang, J Yuan… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymers that integrate multiple functions into one system broaden the application range of
materials, but it remains a great challenge to obtain polymer materials with simultaneously …

Polymer engineering based on reversible covalent chemistry: A promising innovative pathway towards new materials and new functionalities

ZP Zhang, MZ Rong, MQ Zhang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Reversible covalent polymers are able to change their bond arrangement and structure via
reversible reaction triggered by external stimuli including heating, light and pH, while …