Covalent Adaptable Networks through Dynamic N,S-Acetal Chemistry: Toward Recyclable CO2-Based Thermosets

T Habets, G Seychal, M Caliari… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Finding new chemistry platforms for easily recyclable polymers has become a key challenge
to face environmental concerns and the growing plastics demand. Here, we report a …

Conductive and Self-Healing Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Composites for Mechanically Strong Smart Materials

P Shen, Z Jiang, J Viktorova, B Pollard… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
It is a great challenge to develop polymeric materials possessing multiple functionalities for
their intrinsic properties. In our efforts to overcome this dilemma, we report a carbon …

Healable, Recyclable, and High‐Stretchable Polydimethylsiloxane Elastomer Based on Synergistic Effects of Multiple Supramolecular Interactions

WX Liu, D Liu, Y Xiao, M Zou, LY Shi… - Macromolecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is one of the preferred materials for researchers to design
smart flexible sensors or devices due to its excellent chain flexibility as well as the unique …

Terpolymeric platform with enhanced hydrophilicity via cysteic acid for serum intact glycopeptide analysis

MS Sajid, S Saleem, F Jabeen, M Najam-ul-Haq… - Microchimica Acta, 2022 - Springer
A new polymeric (methyl methacrylate/ethylene glycol dimethacrylate/1, 2-epoxy-5-hexene)
base/matrix has been fabricated and decorated with zwitterionic hydrophilic cysteic acid …

3D and 4D printable dual cross-linked polymers with high strength and humidity-triggered reversible actuation

Z Jiang, P Shen, ML Tan, Q Yan, J Viktorova… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
It is highly desirable but challenging to develop humidity-responsive polymers with
simultaneously improved mechanical properties and 3D printability, while still displaying …

Dynamic covalent networks with tunable dynamicity by mixing acylsemicarbazides and thioacylsemicarbazides

R Sarkar, S Majumdar, S Kuil, J Mallens… - Journal of Polymer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic covalent networks (DCNs) use chemical bonds that break and reform at
appropriate processing conditions to allow reconfiguration of the networks. Recently, the …

Stochastic paths controlling speed and dissipation

RA Bone, DJ Sharpe, DJ Wales, JR Green - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Natural processes occur in a finite amount of time and dissipate energy, entropy, and matter.
Near equilibrium, thermodynamic intuition suggests that fast irreversible processes will …

Polymer–solvent interactions as a tool to engineer material properties

HM Aitken, Z Jiang, I Hampton, ML O'Mara… - … Systems Design & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-dynamic polymers, materials with multiple reversible cross-linkers, exhibit improved
and unexpected properties compared to materials with only one class of dynamic bond due …

Biomedical property of gellan gum

GD Lin, PN Smith, RW Li - Application of Gellan Gum as a Biomedical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gellan is a polysaccharide with a linear repeating unit of four carbohydrates: two d-glucoses,
one d-glucuronic acid, and one l-rhamnose. The gram-negative bacterium Sphingomonas …

Stochastic Paths of Dynamically Functioning Materials

RA Bone - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Living systems function dynamically. They generate work with molecular motors, assemble
dynamic structures like microtubules, keep time with circadian clocks, and catalyze the …