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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 49, Issue 20, Pages 7877-7885Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01491
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- Adolphe Merkle Foundation
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Ambizione program of the SNSF
- U.S. Army Research Office [W911NF-12-1-0339]
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With the goal to push the mechanical properties of reconfigurable supramolecular polymers toward those of thermoset resins, we prepared and investigated a new family of hydrogen-bonded polymer networks that are assembled from isophthalic acid-terminated oligo(bisphenol A-co-epichlorohydrin) and different bipyridines. These materials display high storage moduli of up to 3.9 GPa, can be disassembled upon heating to form melts with a viscosity of as low as 2.1 Pa.s, and fully reassemble upon cooling. We show that the new polymers can readily be reconfigured, reprocessed, or recycled and that the reversible (dis)assembly makes them useful as hot-melt adhesives that permit debonding on demand.
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