Journal
MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 290-309Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201200689
Keywords
autonomous healing; crosslinking; self-healing polymers; self-repair
Categories
Funding
- Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT)
- Agency for Innovation through Science and Technology (IWT)
- Belgian Program on Interuniversity Attraction Poles
- Belgian State, Prime Minister's office [P6/27]
- European Science Foundation-Precision Polymer Materials (P2M) program
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Recent developments in material design have seen an exponential increase of polymers and polymer composites that can repair themselves in response to damage. In this review, a distinction is made between extrinsic materials, where the self-healing property is obtained by adding healing agents to the material to be repaired, and intrinsic materials, where self-healing is achieved by the material itself through its chemical nature. An overview of the crosslinking chemistries used in self-healing materials will be given, discussing the advantages and drawbacks of each system. The review is not only aiming to enable researchers to compare their ongoing research with the state-of-the-art but also to serve as a guide for the newcomers, which allows for a selection of the most promising self-healing chemistries.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available