Intrinsically self-healing polymers: from mechanistic insight to current challenges

B Li, PF Cao, T Saito, AP Sokolov - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-healing materials open new prospects for more sustainable technologies with improved
material performance and devices' longevity. We present an overview of the recent …

Dynamic covalent polymer networks: a molecular platform for designing functions beyond chemical recycling and self-healing

N Zheng, Y Xu, Q Zhao, T Xie - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Dynamic covalent polymer networks (DCPN) have historically attracted attention for their
unique roles in chemical recycling and self-healing, which are both relevant for sustainable …

Dendrites in Zn‐based batteries

Q Yang, Q Li, Z Liu, D Wang, Y Guo, X Li… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous Zn batteries that provide a synergistic integration of absolute safety and high
energy density have been considered as highly promising energy‐storage systems for …

Room-temperature self-healing supramolecular polyurethanes based on the synergistic strengthening of biomimetic hierarchical hydrogen-bonding interactions and …

J Xu, X Wang, X Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Yang, S Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing a new generation of polymeric materials that integrate robust mechanical
properties with ultra-high self-healing efficiency at ambient temperature remains a …

Stretchable electronics based on PDMS substrates

D Qi, K Zhang, G Tian, B Jiang, Y Huang - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable electronics, which can retain their functions under stretching, have attracted
great interest in recent decades. Elastic substrates, which bear the applied strain and …

Healable, recyclable, and mechanically tough polyurethane elastomers with exceptional damage tolerance

X Wang, S Zhan, Z Lu, J Li, X Yang, Y Qiao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a huge requirement of elastomers for use in tires, seals, and shock absorbers every
year worldwide. In view of a sustainable society, the next generation of elastomers is …

Fully organic compliant dry electrodes self-adhesive to skin for long-term motion-robust epidermal biopotential monitoring

L Zhang, KS Kumar, H He, CJ Cai, X He, H Gao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Wearable dry electrodes are needed for long-term biopotential recordings but are limited by
their imperfect compliance with the skin, especially during body movements and sweat …

Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties

E Khare, N Holten-Andersen, MJ Buehler - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Transition-metal coordination complexes are emerging as a broad class of supramolecular
crosslinks that can be used to engineer the mechanical properties of advanced structural …

Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability

H Guo, Y Han, W Zhao, J Yang, L Zhang - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Developing autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions is
challenging because the reconstruction of interaction in material for self-healing will …

Self‐healing polymers based on coordination bonds

CH Li, JL Zuo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐healing ability is an important survival feature in nature, with which living beings can
spontaneously repair damage when wounded. Inspired by nature, people have designed …