High‐Performance Polymeric Materials through Hydrogen‐Bond Cross‐Linking

It has always been critical to develop high-performance polymeric materials with exceptional mechanical strength and toughness, thermal stability, and even healable properties for meeting performance requirements in industry. Conventional chemical cross-linking leads to enhanced mechanical strength and thermostability at the expense of extensibility due to mutually exclusive mechanisms. Such major challenges have recently been addressed by using noncovalent cross-linking of reversible multiple hydrogen-bonds (H-bonds) that widely exist in biological materials, such as silk and muscle. Recent decades have witnessed the development of many tailor-made high-performance H-bond cross-linked polymeric materials.…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 51873196
• ZA
  Zhejiang A and F University

  Award: 2055210012
• AR
  Australian Research Council

  Awards: DP190101782, IC170100032, DP190102992