New advances in covalent network polymers via dynamic covalent chemistry

Z Lei, H Chen, S Huang, LJ Wayment, Q Xu… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Covalent network polymers, as materials composed of atoms interconnected by covalent
bonds in a continuous network, are known for their thermal and chemical stability. Over the …

Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions

MJ Webber, MW Tibbitt - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Polymer materials provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental,
manufacturing and health-care challenges. Traditional thermoplastic and thermoset …

Vitrimers: Current research trends and their emerging applications

J Zheng, ZM Png, SH Ng, GX Tham, E Ye, SS Goh… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of recyclable plastics is a key research focus in today's world due to their
environmental issues, and non-renewability concerns. Recently, vitrimeric materials have …

Structure–reactivity–property relationships in covalent adaptable networks

V Zhang, B Kang, JV Accardo… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer networks built out of dynamic covalent bonds offer the potential to translate the
control and tunability of chemical reactions to macroscopic physical properties. Under …

Elastic vitrimers: Beyond thermoplastic and thermoset elastomers

J Luo, Z Demchuk, X Zhao, T Saito, M Tian, AP Sokolov… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Thermoset elastomers are widely used in industry and frontier research due to their
advantage of mechanical robustness, high thermal/chemical resistance, and good …

The chemical recycling of polyesters for a circular plastics economy: challenges and emerging opportunities

J Payne, MD Jones - ChemSusChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Whilst plastics have played an instrumental role in human development, growing
environmental concerns have led to increasing public scrutiny and demands for outright …

[HTML][HTML] A review of multi-material 3D printing of functional materials via vat photopolymerization

U Shaukat, E Rossegger, S Schlögl - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing of materials is a prominent process technology which
involves the fabrication of materials layer-by-layer or point-by-point in a subsequent manner …

A highly dynamic covalent polymer network without creep: mission impossible?

F Van Lijsebetten, T Debsharma… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic covalent polymer networks provide an interesting solution to the challenging
recyclability of thermosets and elastomers. One of the remaining design constraints …

Dynamic covalent chemistry in polymer networks: a mechanistic perspective

JM Winne, L Leibler, FE Du Prez - Polymer Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The incorporation of dynamic covalent linkages within and between polymer chains brings
new properties to classical thermosetting polymer formulations, in particular in terms of …

Toward stimuli‐responsive dynamic thermosets through continuous development and improvements in covalent adaptable networks (CANs)

M Podgórski, BD Fairbanks, BE Kirkpatrick… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs), unlike typical thermosets or other covalently
crosslinked networks, possess a unique, often dormant ability to activate one or more forms …