The evolution of self-healing polymers has resulted in a myriad of healing designs that have
given way to complex systems capable of supporting multiple cycles, among other features …

Conductive hydrogels have generated great interest in biomedical and electrical fields.
However, conventional conductive hydrogels usually lack self-healing properties, which …

Among the most fruitful material-industry relationships is that of rubber and the automotive
industry. Tires, seals, gaskets, hoses, tubes, soft, and damping parts are common …

Rubber with excellent mechanical properties and self-healing ability could have great
applicability in the next generation of glove fabrication. Developing durable gloves with …

Nitrile rubber is considered the workhorse of the automotive rubber industry, thanks to its
chemical resistance and mechanical performance. However, applications such as hoses …

Conventional crosslinking endows rubbers with excellent mechanical properties, at the
same time, turn them to be thermosets with the impossibility of recycling and self-healing …

A kind of epoxidized natural rubber (ENR)/CNCs composites without using conventional
crosslinking agents was successfully fabricated in this paper, in which a supramolecular …

Nowadays, the self-healing approach in materials science mainly relies on functionalized
polymers used as matrices in nanocomposites. Through different physicochemical pathways …

It is impossible to describe the recent progress of our society without considering the role of
polymers; however, for a broad audience,“polymer” is usually related to environmental …

In most cases, the strength of self-healing supramolecular rubber based on noncovalent
bonds is in the order of KPa, which is a challenge for their further applications. Incorporation …