The development of recyclable plastics is a key research focus in today's world due to their
environmental issues, and non-renewability concerns. Recently, vitrimeric materials have …

Epoxy resins are used in various fields in a wide range of applications such as coatings,
adhesives, modeling compounds, impregnation materials, high-performance composites …

As the currently predominant thermoset plastic, epoxy thermoset is widely used in composite
materials, electronic packaging materials, coatings and adhesives. The rapid rise in epoxy …

The vitrimer-thermoset concept represents an important contribution to improve the durability
and recyclability of thermoset-systems. The concept of Associative Dynamic Covalent …

A novel biobased epoxy vitrimer (Gte-VA) with desirable mechanical properties was
synthesized from glycerol triglycidyl ether (Gte) and an imine-containing hardener (VA) …

From cars to airplanes, from household appliances to indoor ornaments, from biomedical
devices to factory equipment, epoxy resins have been deeply rooted in modern society. But …

A fully polymerized (cured) thermoset is no longer capable of flow like a thermoplastic to be
recycled and reprocessed into a new object. Developing repairable, malleable and …

The development of force-responsive molecules called mechanophores is a central
component of the field of polymer mechanochemistry. Mechanophores enable the design …

Vitrimers make up a class of polymeric materials combining the advantages of thermosets
and thermoplastics, because they can be reprocessed while being at the same time …

To date, all epoxy vitrimer systems reported in the literature rely on addition of significant
amounts of catalysts to achieve the dynamic transesterification reaction (TER). However, the …