Healable and Recyclable Elastomers with Record‐High Mechanical Robustness, Unprecedented Crack Tolerance, and Superhigh Elastic Restorability

Mechano-responsive hydrogen-bonding array of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer captures both strength and self-healing

(2021) Youngho Eom et al.   Nature Communications

Achieving Fast Self-Healing and Reprocessing of Supertough Water-Dispersed “Living” Supramolecular Polymers Containing Dynamic Ditelluride Bonds under Visible Light

(2020) Wuhou Fan et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Highly Efficient and Water‐Insensitive Self‐Healing Elastomer for Wet and Underwater Electronics

(2020) Muhammad Khatib et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

An Ultrastrong and Highly Stretchable Polyurethane Elastomer Enabled by a Zipper‐Like Ring‐Sliding Effect

(2020) Chen‐Yu Shi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Adaptable Strategy to Fabricate Self-Healable and Reprocessable Poly(thiourethane-urethane) Elastomers via Reversible Thiol–Isocyanate Click Chemistry

(2020) Cheng-Jie Fan et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Extremely Tough, Puncture-Resistant, Transparent, and Photoluminescent Polyurethane Elastomers for Crack Self-Diagnose and Healing Tracking

(2020) Xingxing Chen et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Tough and Multi‐Recyclable Cross‐Linked Supramolecular Polyureas via Incorporating Noncovalent Bonds into Main‐Chains

(2020) Bo Qin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fiber‐Reinforced Viscoelastomers Show Extraordinary Crack Resistance That Exceeds Metals

(2020) Wei Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Acylsemicarbazide Moieties with Dynamic Reversibility and Multiple Hydrogen Bonding for Transparent, High Modulus, and Malleable Polymers

(2020) Daihua Fu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Polypyrrole-Doped Conductive Supramolecular Elastomer with Stretchability, Rapid Self-Healing, and Adhesive Property for Flexible Electronic Sensors

(2019) Jingsi Chen et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Highly Efficient Self‐Healing Elastomer with Unprecedented Mechanical Properties

(2019) Luzhi Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultra-Tough, Strong, and Defect-Tolerant Elastomers with Self-Healing and Intelligent-Responsive Abilities

(2019) Yong Zhu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

High-Performance Lignin-Containing Polyurethane Elastomers with Dynamic Covalent Polymer Networks

(2019) Weifeng Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Biomimetic Mineralized Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Macrofiber with Spider Silk‐Like Supertoughness

(2019) Yadong Yu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Transparent, Mechanically Strong, Extremely Tough, Self‐Recoverable, Healable Supramolecular Elastomers Facilely Fabricated via Dynamic Hard Domains Design for Multifunctional Applications

(2019) Dong Wang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Artificial spider silk from ion-doped and twisted core-sheath hydrogel fibres

(2019) Yuanyuan Dou et al.   Nature Communications

A Highly Stretchable and Self‐Healing Supramolecular Elastomer Based on Sliding Crosslinks and Hydrogen Bonds

(2019) Ruichun Du et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

High strength in combination with high toughness in robust and sustainable polymeric materials

(2019) Xiaojian Liao et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanically Robust, Self-Healable, and Highly Stretchable “Living” Crosslinked Polyurethane Based on a Reversible CC Bond

(2018) Ze Ping Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Extreme Toughening of Soft Materials with Liquid Metal

(2018) Navid Kazem et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tough and Water-Insensitive Self-Healing Elastomer for Robust Electronic Skin

(2018) Jiheong Kang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Quadruple H-Bonding Cross-Linked Supramolecular Polymeric Materials as Substrates for Stretchable, Antitearing, and Self-Healable Thin Film Electrodes

(2018) Xuzhou Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An autonomously electrically self-healing liquid metal–elastomer composite for robust soft-matter robotics and electronics

(2018) Eric J. Markvicka et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A rigid and healable polymer cross-linked by weak but abundant Zn(II)-carboxylate interactions

(2018) Jian-Cheng Lai et al.   Nature Communications

Colorless, Transparent, Robust, and Fast Scratch-Self-Healing Elastomers via a Phase-Locked Dynamic Bonds Design

(2018) Yue Lai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Towards Dynamic but Supertough Healable Polymers through Biomimetic Hierarchical Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions

(2018) Yan Song et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A facile dynamic crosslinked healable poly(oxime-urethane) elastomer with high elastic recovery and recyclability

(2018) Daihua Fu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A Highly Stretchy, Transparent Elastomer with the Capability to Automatically Self-Heal Underwater

(2018) Yue Cao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mechanically robust, readily repairable polymers via tailored noncovalent cross-linking

(2017) Yu Yanagisawa et al.   SCIENCE

Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes

(2017) Emmanouela Filippidi et al.   SCIENCE

Superior Performance of Polyurethane Based on Natural Melanin Nanoparticles

(2016) Yang Wang et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

(2014) E. Ducrot et al.   SCIENCE

Catalyst-free room-temperature self-healing elastomers based on aromatic disulfide metathesis

(2013) Alaitz Rekondo et al.   Materials Horizons

Modular Design in Natural and Biomimetic Soft Materials

(2011) Aaron M. Kushner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The conflicts between strength and toughness

(2011) Robert O. Ritchie   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

(2010) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   PLoS One

Greatly Increased Toughness of Infiltrated Spider Silk

(2009) S.-M. Lee et al.   SCIENCE

Geometric Confinement Governs the Rupture Strength of H-bond Assemblies at a Critical Length Scale

(2008) Sinan Keten et al.   NANO LETTERS

Materials science: Supramolecular polymers

(2008) Tom F. A. de Greef et al.   NATURE

Self-healing and thermoreversible rubber from supramolecular assembly

(2008) Philippe Cordier et al.   NATURE