Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability

  • Hongshuang Guo,
  • Yi Han,
  • Weiqiang Zhao,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Lei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15949-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Developing autonomous self-healing materials for application under extreme conditions is challenging. Here, the authors design a highly stretchable elastomer by incorporation of H-bonds and disulphide methathesis, which shows efficient self-healing under extreme conditions.