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Hard Autonomous Self‐Healing Supramolecular Materials—A Contradiction in Terms?
Author(s) -
Hoogenboom Richard
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201205226
Subject(s) - supramolecular chemistry , self healing , thermoplastic elastomer , copolymer , contradiction , supramolecular polymers , materials science , elastomer , self healing material , polymer science , nanotechnology , thermoplastic , computer science , chemistry , polymer , composite material , philosophy , medicine , epistemology , molecule , organic chemistry , alternative medicine , pathology
Achieving the unachievable: Hard supramolecular materials displaying autonomous self‐healing have been considered unachievable because of the mobility required to reconstitute supramolecular interactions after rupture. Now, relatively hard thermoplastic elastomers have been reported that meet these requirements. The picture shows a triblock copolymer containing soft supramolecular “self‐healing” domains and hard, structure‐giving domains.