Self-healing polymers

S Wang, MW Urban - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Synthesis and applications of boronic acid-containing polymers: from materials to medicine

WLA Brooks, BS Sumerlin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, boronic acid-containing macromolecules have been utilized in a number of
biomedical applications, 1 including use in dynamic covalent materials, dual thermo-and …

Room-temperature self-healing polymers based on dynamic-covalent boronic esters

JJ Cash, T Kubo, AP Bapat, BS Sumerlin - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cross-linked polymers constructed with dynamic-covalent boronic esters were synthesized
via photoinitiated radical thiol–ene click chemistry. Because the reversibility of the boronic …

RAFT polymerization to form stimuli-responsive polymers

G Moad - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive polymers adapt to their surrounding environment. These polymers are
capable of responding to a variety of external stimuli, which include optical, electrical …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process–a third update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a third update to the review of reversible deactivation radical
polymerization (RDRP) achieved with thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a …

Bulk network polymers with dynamic B–O bonds: Healable and reprocessable materials

AP Bapat, BS Sumerlin, A Sutti - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The need to minimize the amount of polymeric waste entering landfills and oceans has led
to several research avenues in the field of polymer science. Particularly, the development of …

Boronic acid-based hydrogels undergo self-healing at neutral and acidic pH

CC Deng, WLA Brooks, KA Abboud… - ACS Macro …, 2015 - ACS Publications
This report describes the synthesis and characterization of boronate ester-cross-linked
hydrogels capable of self-healing behavior at neutral and acidic pH. This atypically wide pH …

A ionic liquid enhanced conductive hydrogel for strain sensing applications

Y Zhou, X Fei, J Tian, L Xu, Y Li - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Strain-sensitive and conductive hydrogels have attracted extensive research interest due to
their potential applications in various fields, such as healthcare monitoring, human–machine …

Advances in the synthesis of organoborane polymers for optical, electronic, and sensory applications

F Jäkle - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed renewed interest and numerous unexpected discoveries in
the area of main group organometallic chemistry. Unusual bonding modes have been …

Ionic liquid-based gels for biomedical applications

Y Gao, W Zhang, L Li, Z Wang, Y Shu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids (ILs) with ion-pair structures have played unprecedented roles in various fields,
eg, organic synthesis, electrochemistry, analytical sciences and functional materials design …