Polymer materials provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental,
manufacturing and health-care challenges. Traditional thermoplastic and thermoset …

Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, hydrogels are attracting increasing
attention in both basic and translational biomedical studies. Although the classical hydrogels …

Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred to as rapid prototy**, solid free-form fabrication,
or simply threedimensional (3D) printing, comprises a number of technologies that allow the …

Reversible covalent polymers are able to change their bond arrangement and structure via
reversible reaction triggered by external stimuli including heating, light and pH, while …

Rapidly growing demand of functional polymers in various interdisciplinary areas of
research has accentuated the need for modern synthetic tools to develop advanced …

Adaption and self‐healing are two major principles in material science, often coupled with
the placement of supramolecular moieties within a material. Proper molecular design can …

Polymers containing hydrogen-bonding side groups (HBGs) can form transient
supramolecular networks that exhibit technologically useful viscoelastic properties. Here, we …

In this work, we correlate network dynamics, supramolecular reversibility and the
macroscopic surface scratch healing behavior for a series of elastomeric ionomers based on …

Natural and synthetic materials based on associating polymers possess diverse mechanical
behavior, transport properties and responsiveness to external stimuli. Although much is …

Reversible cross-links between polymer chains are a promising avenue to engineer the
mechanical properties of soft materials and in particular hydrogels. Such developments are …