Most organic polymeric materials have high flammability, for which the large amounts of
smoke, toxic gases, heat, and melt drips produced during their burning cause immeasurable …

Self-healing materials open new prospects for more sustainable technologies with improved
material performance and devices' longevity. We present an overview of the recent …

Nafion ionomers were developed and are produced by the EI DuPont Company. These
materials are generated by copolymerization of a perfluorinated vinyl ether comonomer with …

It has always been critical to develop high‐performance polymeric materials with
exceptional mechanical strength and toughness, thermal stability, and even healable …

A new self-healing multiphase polymer is developed in which a pervasive network of
dynamic metal–ligand (zinc–imidazole) interactions are programmed in the soft matrix of a …

The concept of self-healing synthetic materials emerged a couple of decades ago and
continues to attract scientific community. Driven primarily by an opportunity to develop life …

Carbon molecular sieves (CMSs) have been incorporated into two different polymer
matrices to form mixed matrix membrane films for gas separations. The CMSs were formed …

Functionalizing the termini of low‐molecular‐weight telechelic polymers with strongly
associating hydrogen bonding units (see Figure) results in a new set of supramolecular …

The dynamic mechanical measurements on several polymers filled with very fine silica
particles revealed that thesecomposites exhibit two tan< 3 peaks. One was related to the …

A fundamental understanding of structure‐morphology‐property relationships of proton
exchange membranes (PEMs) is crucial in order to improve the cost, performance, and …