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Towards the Generation of Self‐Healing Materials by Means of a Reversible Photo‐induced Approach
Author(s) -
Froimowicz Pablo,
Frey Holger,
Landfester Katharina
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.201000643
Subject(s) - self healing , macromonomer , self healing material , materials science , aqueous solution , computer science , chemistry , polymer , composite material , polymerization , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Photo‐induced reversibility as a tool for self‐healing: a reversible photo‐induced dendritic macromonomer was synthesized and proven to form networks with different features depending on the crosslinking conditions. While networks formed from aqueous systems exhibited a reversible change in their crosslinking degree, networks generated in bulk underwent fully reversibility. The latter was then exploited for generating self‐healing materials by means of a photo‐induced treatment.