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...

ICSHM 2013: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Self-Healing Materials, Ghent, Belgium, 16-20 June 2013

Symposium organised by Ghent University, Department of Structural Engineering and Delft University of Technology, Aerospace Structures & Materials. Materials play an extremely important role in our lives. These materials may be of a very different nature ranging from metals over concrete to polymers and composite materials. They all have in...