Room-temperature versus heating-mediated healing of a Diels-Alder crosslinked polymer network Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The healing behavior of a dynamically reversible covalent polymer network with a Tg of 3 °C, based on the reversible Diels-Alder (DA) cycloaddition between furan and maleimide moieties is reported, for both room-temperature and heating-mediated healing. In previous work the dynamic character of the DA cycloaddition reaction in a polymer network was studied, those findings are used to understand its healing ability. The recovery of mechanical ...