Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Chemical control of the viscoelastic properties of vinylogous urethane vitrimers

  • Wim Denissen,
  • Martijn Droesbeke,
  • Renaud Nicolaÿ,
  • Ludwik Leibler,
  • Johan M. Winne,
  • Filip E. Du Prez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14857
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Vitrimers are malleable networks based on thermally triggered associative exchange reactions and thus can be used for processing, recycling and self-healing materials. Here the authors show how acids and bases affect the exchange kinetics and in turn rationalize these effects mechanistically.