期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 23, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23094757
关键词
self-healing materials; self-healing rubbers; natural rubber; synthetic rubber; dynamic networks; supramolecular chemistry
资金
- State Research Agency of Spain (AEI) [PID2019-107501RB-I00, RYC-2017-22837]
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) [PIE-202060E183]
This article provides an exhaustive summary of the developments in self-healing rubber materials over the past decade and highlights the achievements and breakthroughs made by Spain in implementing this strategy. It emphasizes that self-healing capability is the final challenge in the pursuit of truly sustainable materials.
It is impossible to describe the recent progress of our society without considering the role of polymers; however, for a broad audience, polymer is usually related to environmental pollution. The poor disposal and management of polymeric waste has led to an important environmental crisis, and, within polymers, plastics have attracted bad press despite being easily reprocessable. Nonetheless, there is a group of polymeric materials that is particularly more complex to reprocess, rubbers. These macromolecules are formed by irreversible crosslinked networks that give them their characteristic elastic behavior, but at the same time avoid their reprocessing. Conferring them a self-healing capacity stands out as a decisive approach for overcoming this limitation. By this mean, rubbers would be able to repair or restore their damage automatically, autonomously, or by applying an external stimulus, increasing their lifetime, and making them compatible with the circular economy model. Spain is a reference country in the implementation of this strategy in rubbery materials, achieving successful self-healable elastomers with high healing efficiency and outstanding mechanical performance. This article presents an exhaustive summary of the developments reported in the previous 10 years, which demonstrates that this property is the last frontier in search of truly sustainable materials.
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