Self‐Healing Polymers Based on Coordination Bonds
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures · Nanjing University
Abstract
Self-healing ability is an important survival feature in nature, with which living beings can spontaneously repair damage when wounded. Inspired by nature, people have designed and synthesized many self-healing materials by encapsulating healing agents or incorporating reversible covalent bonds or noncovalent interactions into a polymer matrix. Among the noncovalent interactions, the coordination bond is demonstrated to be effective for constructing highly efficient self-healing polymers. Moreover, with the presence of functional metal ions or ligands and dynamic metal-ligand bonds, self-healing polymers can show various functions such as dielectrics, luminescence, magnetism, catalysis, stimuli-responsiveness,…
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- 100%
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2Topics & keywords
- Self-healing material
- Materials science
- Polymer
- Non-covalent interactions
- Covalent bond
- Self-healing
- Ligand (biochemistry)
- Nanotechnology