Self-healing of thermoplastic polymer by living polymerization

Autonomic self-healing thermosetting polymers or elastomers have been substantially studied, in which polymerization of the healing agents released from pre-embedded capsules serves as the key issue. As for thermoplastics, another major class of polymeric materials, however, researches on their self-healing approaches are less reported. Here in...

Evaluating solvents as healing-agents in thermoplastic matrics via dynamic synchrotron x-ray microtomography (abstract)