Self-healing is the capability of a material to recover from physical damage. Both physical
and chemical approaches have been used to construct self-healing polymers. These include …

Polymers are extensively exploited as active materials in a variety of electronics and energy
devices because of their tailorable electrical properties, mechanical flexibility, facile …

Inspired by nature, self-healing materials represent the forefront of recent developments in
materials chemistry and engineering. This review outlines the recent advances in the field of …

1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly develo** field of …

Recycling mixed polyolefin plastics is a significant challenge due to the limitations in sorting
and degraded mechanical properties of blends. Nonreactive compatibilization by adding a …

Applications for advanced functional soft materials that possess precisely engineered
properties and functional groups have been expanding significantly with the development of …

As polymers and polymeric materials are “the” smart invention and technological driving
force of the 20th century, the quest for self‐healing or self‐repairing polymers is strong. The …

As a novel class of dynamic and non‐covalent polymers, supramolecular polymers not only
display specific structural and physicochemical properties, but also have the ability to …

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 …

Smart materials with the ability to repair themselves have been the focus of different fields of
science and engineering. This mini-review provides an insight into the rapidly expanding …