Self-healing materials open new prospects for more sustainable technologies with improved
material performance and devices' longevity. We present an overview of the recent …

Thermoset elastomers are widely used in industry and frontier research due to their
advantage of mechanical robustness, high thermal/chemical resistance, and good …

Vitrimers are an innovative class of polymers that boast a remarkable fusion of mechanical
and dynamic features, complemented by the added benefit of end‐of‐life recyclability. This …

The current paradigm of elastomer design typically falls into the trade-off between stiffness
and extensibility. With a few reports on circumventing this trade-off behavior, eg, increasing …

Incorporation of dynamic (reversible) bonds within polymer structure enables properties
such as self-healing, shape transformation, and recyclability. These dynamic bonds …

In addition to the glass transition, vitrimers undergo a topological transition from viscoelastic
liquid to viscoelastic solid behavior when the network rearrangements facilitated by dynamic …

Two different classes of hairy self-suspended nanoparticles in the melt state, polymer-
grafted nanoparticles (GNPs) and star polymers, are shown to display universal dynamic …

Cross-linked polymers with covalent adaptable networks (CANs) can be reprocessed under
external stimuli owing to the exchangeability of dynamic covalent bonds. Optimization of …

Materials with tunable modulus, viscosity, and complex viscoelastic spectra are crucial in
applications such as self-healing, additive manufacturing, and energy damping. It is still …

Vitrimers, dynamic networks with bonds that exchange without breaking, are an emerging
class of reprocessable and recyclable polymers. The dynamics in such materials are …