A generic methodology to study self-healing properties of thermo-reversible polymer networks

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A new class of supramolecular thermoplastic elastomers for self-healing coatings

A supramolecular material exhibiting self-healing properties was studied in this work. The material is based on the mixture of two ABA-type oligomeric triblock copolymers, the first consisting of positively charged end blocks and the second one of negatively charged ones. Each oligomeric triblock consists of a soft middle block and soft end...

Studying the healing behavior at a microsopic scale

Research in the field of smart materials that exhibit self-repair mechanisms has greatly expanded over the last few years. This is especially true for polymers and polymer composite materials. One class of self-healing polymer materials is the reversible polymer network systems that use dynamic covalent bonds as a means to repair sustained...

A remendable polymer network based on reversible covalent bonding for coating applications

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