Advances in development of self-healing materials can significantly improve the lifetime and safety margin of consumer products. Building on the foundation of our previous work, (Nat. Chem. 2012 , 4, 467-472), we have utilized simple and inexpensive monomers for a facile synthesis of multiphasic self-healing thermoplastic elastomeric materials. Synthesized polymers were characterized by various spectroscopic, thermal and mechanical techniques such as 1H NMR, SEC, DSC, TGA and DMA.  Various structural parameters such as degree of polymerization, graft density, and monomer composition were varied systematically to investigate the resulting mechanical and autonomous self-healing properties.

Multiphasic self-healing materials from simple monomers

248th National Meeting (2014)

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