Self-healing metallopolymers: Detailed inverstigation of the self-healing properties by scratch testing

In the last decade several intrinsic self-healing materials have been developed in which the healing mechanism was mainly based on the reversibility of a certain structural element. For this purpose, reversible covalent bonds, e.g., based on the Diels-Alder reaction or weaker non-covalent interactions, e.g., hydrogen bonding, ionic interactions...

Metallopolymers as self-healing materials

Metallopolymers represent an interesting class of supramolecular polymers. Their properties can be tuned by the selection of the attached/incorporated ligand as well as the choice of the corresponding metal ion.[1] In this manner, also reversible interactions, i.e. on the one side undirected ionic interactions between positively charged metal...

Self-healing metallopolymers: Detailed investigation of the self-healing properties by scratch testing

In the last decade several intrinsic self-healing materials have been developed in which the healing mechanism was mainly based on the reversibility of a certain structural element. For this purpose, reversible covalent bonds, e.g., based on the Diels-Alder reaction or weaker non-covalent interactions, e.g., hydrogen bonding, ionic interactions...