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Extremely Stretchable Strain Sensors Based on Conductive Self‐Healing Dynamic Cross‐Links Hydrogels for Human‐Motion Detection Open
Extremely stretchable self-healing strain sensors based on conductive hydrogels are successfully fabricated. The strain sensor can achieve autonomic self-heal electrically and mechanically under ambient conditions, and can sustain extreme …
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An Injectable Self‐Assembling Collagen–Gold Hybrid Hydrogel for Combinatorial Antitumor Photothermal/Photodynamic Therapy Open
An injectable and self-healing collagen-gold hybrid hydrogel is spontaneously formed by electrostatic self-assembly and subsequent biomineralization. It is demonstrated that such collagen-based hydrogels may be used as an injectable materi…
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Self-healing mechanisms in smart protective coatings: A review Open
Self-healing coatings inspired by biological systems possess the ability to repair physical damage or recover functional performance with minimal or no intervention. This article provides a comprehensive and updated review on the advantage…
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Self-Healing Injectable Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration Open
Biomaterials with the ability to self-heal and recover their structural integrity offer many advantages for applications in biomedicine. The past decade has witnessed the rapid emergence of a new class of self-healing biomaterials commonly…
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Exploring a naturally tailored small molecule for stretchable, self-healing, and adhesive supramolecular polymers Open
A supramolecular polymer with integrated properties is readily obtained from a natural small molecule.
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A Review of Self‐Healing Concrete for Damage Management of Structures Open
The increasing concern for safety and sustainability of structures is calling for the development of smart self‐healing materials and preventive repair methods. The appearance of small cracks (<300 µm in width) in concrete is almost unavoi…
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Self‐Healing Hydrogels: The Next Paradigm Shift in Tissue Engineering? Open
Given their durability and long‐term stability, self‐healable hydrogels have, in the past few years, emerged as promising replacements for the many brittle hydrogels currently being used in preclinical or clinical trials. To this end, the …
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Tough, self-healable and tissue-adhesive hydrogel with tunable multifunctionality Open
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A Transparent, Self‐Healing, Highly Stretchable Ionic Conductor Open
Self-healing materials can repair damage caused by mechanical wear, thereby extending lifetime of devices. A transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable ionic conductor is presented that autonomously heals after experiencing severe mecha…
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Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability Open
Developing autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions is challenging because the reconstruction of interaction in material for self-healing will experience significant resistance and fail. Herein, a universally …
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Self-healing SEI enables full-cell cycling of a silicon-majority anode with a coulombic efficiency exceeding 99.9% Open
Full-cell cycling of a high density silicon-majority anode with 2× volumetric capacity of graphite and a stabilized coulombic efficiency exceeding 99.9%.
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Extremely Stretchable and Fast Self‐Healing Hydrogels Open
Dynamic crosslinking of extremely stretchable hydrogels with rapid self-healing ability is described. Using this new strategy, the obtained hydrogels are able to elongate 100 times compared to their initial length and to completely self-he…
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Tough Supramolecular Polymer Networks with Extreme Stretchability and Fast Room‐Temperature Self‐Healing Open
Recent progress on highly tough and stretchable polymer networks has highlighted the potential of wearable electronic devices and structural biomaterials such as cartilage. For some given applications, a combination of desirable mechanical…
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Evolution of self-healing elastomers, from extrinsic to combined intrinsic mechanisms: a review Open
We propose a timeline classifying self-healing polymers in generations based on the healing mechanism, and correlated with historical development.
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Advanced Materials for Use in Soft Self‐Healing Devices Open
Devices integrated with self‐healing ability can benefit from long‐term use as well as enhanced reliability, maintenance and durability. This progress report reviews the developments in the field of self‐healing polymers/composites and wea…
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Tough Self‐Healing Elastomers by Molecular Enforced Integration of Covalent and Reversible Networks Open
Self‐healing polymers crosslinked by solely reversible bonds are intrinsically weaker than common covalently crosslinked networks. Introducing covalent crosslinks into a reversible network would improve mechanical strength. It is challengi…
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Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole Open
Reversible boronic ester-based polymers/hydrogels achieve cutting-edge biomedical applications including drug delivery, adhesion, bioimplants, healthcare monitoring by self-healing, injectability, biocompatibility, multi-responsiveness to …
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Thermodynamically stable whilst kinetically labile coordination bonds lead to strong and tough self-healing polymers Open
There is often a trade-off between mechanical properties (modulus and toughness) and dynamic self-healing. Here we report the design and synthesis of a polymer containing thermodynamically stable whilst kinetically labile coordination comp…
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A fully bio-based epoxy vitrimer: Self-healing, triple-shape memory and reprocessing triggered by dynamic covalent bond exchange Open
Vitrimers are a new type of polymers with promising applications in innovative materials. Epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) is an ideal candidate for vitrimer preparation owing to its abundant epoxy groups. However, preparing plant oil-based vi…
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Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymers: Smart Materials with Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Properties Open
Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers have emerged as promising "smart" supramolecular functional materials with stimuli-responsive, self-healing, and recyclable properties. The hydrogen bonds can either be used as chemically respons…
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An injectable self-healing coordinative hydrogel with antibacterial and angiogenic properties for diabetic skin wound repair Open
We report here an injectable, self-healing coordinative hydrogel with antibacterial and angiogenic properties for diabetic wound regeneration. The hydrogel was prepared by coordinative cross-linking of multi-arm thiolated polyethylene glyc…
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High-performance wearable thermoelectric generator with self-healing, recycling, and Lego-like reconfiguring capabilities Open
A self-healable, recyclable, Lego-like reconfigurable thermoelectric generator enables wearable energy harvesting.
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Anisotropic and self-healing hydrogels with multi-responsive actuating capability Open
Inspired by smart biological tissues, artificial muscle-like actuators offer fascinating prospects due to their distinctive shape transformation and self-healing function under external stimuli. However, further practical application is hi…
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Recent advances in shear‐thinning and self‐healing hydrogels for biomedical applications Open
Shear‐thinning and self‐healing hydrogels are being investigated in various biomedical applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering, and 3D bioprinting. Such hydrogels are formed through dynamic and reversible interactions betw…
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Bio-inspired self-healing structural color hydrogel Open
Significance Structural color hydrogels have been widely studied and used in different applications, such as in switches, optical devices, etc. However, because the deterioration and accumulation of damage of these materials are inevitable…
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Injectable and Cytocompatible Tough Double‐Network Hydrogels through Tandem Supramolecular and Covalent Crosslinking Open
Double-network theory is extended to include guest-host interactions, enabling injectability and cytcompatibility of tough hydrogels. Noncovalent interactions are used as a sacrificial network to toughen covalently crosslinked hydrogels fo…
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Application of expanded perlite encapsulated bacteria and growth media for self-healing concrete Open
Self-healing concrete based on calcium carbonate precipitation induced through bacterial activity has been investigated in recent years by teams around the world. For the first time, optimisation of the self-healing performance was conside…
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Ultrafast self-gelling powder mediates robust wet adhesion to promote healing of gastrointestinal perforations Open
Ultrafast self-gelling polymeric powder with strong wet bioadhesion can be used as effective tissue sealant.
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Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Self-healing Hydrogels Open
Hydrogels, which are crosslinked polymer networks with high water contents and rheological solid-like properties, are attractive materials for biomedical applications. Self-healing hydrogels are particularly interesting because of their ab…
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Injectable Self‐Healing Antibacterial Bioactive Polypeptide‐Based Hybrid Nanosystems for Efficiently Treating Multidrug Resistant Infection, Skin‐Tumor Therapy, and Enhancing Wound Healing Open
The surgical procedure in skin‐tumor therapy usually results in cutaneous defects, and multidrug‐resistant bacterial infection could cause chronic wounds. Here, for the first time, an injectable self‐healing antibacterial bioactive polypep…