Advances in 4D printing: materials and applications

X Kuang, DJ Roach, J Wu, CM Hamel… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 4D printing has attracted tremendous interest since its first conceptualization in
2013. 4D printing derived from the fast growth and interdisciplinary research of smart …

Polymerization of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and other alkylene oxides: synthesis, novel polymer architectures, and bioconjugation

J Herzberger, K Niederer, H Pohlit, J Seiwert… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The review summarizes current trends and developments in the polymerization of alkylene
oxides in the last two decades since 1995, with a particular focus on the most important …

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 …

Biomimetic self‐healing

CE Diesendruck, NR Sottos, JS Moore… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐healing is a natural process common to all living organisms which provides increased
longevity and the ability to adapt to changes in the environment. Inspired by this fitness …

Chemical and physical aspects of self-healing materials

Y Yang, X Ding, MW Urban - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The concept of self-healing synthetic materials emerged a couple of decades ago and
continues to attract scientific community. Driven primarily by an opportunity to develop life …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of polymer architecture on the intrinsic self-healing character of polymers

SJ Garcia - European Polymer Journal, 2014 - Elsevier
Intrinsic and extrinsic self-healing strategies can be employed to mitigate the effects of local
damage in order to (partially) restore a lost property or functionality and to avoid premature …

Superior hard but quickly reversible Si–O–Si network enables scalable fabrication of transparent, self-healing, robust, and programmable multifunctional …

Y Hou, G Zhu, J Cui, N Wu, B Zhao, J Xu… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A coating with programmable multifunctionality based on application requirements is
desirable. However, it is still a challenge to prepare a hard and flexible coating with a quick …

Exploring dynamic equilibrium of Diels–Alder reaction for solid state plasticity in remoldable shape memory polymer network

G Zhang, Q Zhao, L Yang, W Zou, X Xi, T Xie - ACS Macro Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
The reversible and click nature of Diels–Alder (DA) reactions has made them ideal
candidates to design materials with nonconventional properties. Most commonly, the …

Self‐Healing Elastic Electronics: Materials Design, Mechanisms, and Applications

Y Wan, XC Li, H Yuan, D Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional electronic devices inevitably undergo degradation over time due to deformation,
fatigue, or mechanical damage, ultimately resulting in device failure. To overcome this issue …

Toward robust, tough, self-healable supramolecular elastomers for potential application in flexible substrates

J Fan, J Huang, Z Gong, L Cao… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A robust, tough, and self-healable elastomer is a promising candidate for substrate in
flexible electronic devices, but there is often a trade-off between mechanical properties …