Self-healing hyperbranched poly(aroyltriazole)s

Self-healing hyperbranched poly(aroyltriazole)s

Synthesis and self-assembly behavior of POSS-embedded hyperbranched polymers.

Here we demonstrate a simple and straightforward approach to prepare POSS-embedded hyperbranched (HB-POSS) polymers with customized molecular weights and sizes just by controlling the polymerization time. The polymers can be further used for building amphiphilic polymers, presenting morphological transition from micelle to vesicle in aqueous solution.

Biomimetic Self-Healing.

Self-healing is a natural process common to all living organisms which provides increased longevity and the ability to adapt to changes in the environment. Inspired by this fitness-enhancing functionality, which was tuned by billions of years of evolution, scientists and engineers have been incorporating self-healing capabilities into synthetic materials. By mimicking mechanically triggered che...

Self-healing Polymers

Self-healing polymers are a new class of smart materials that have the capability to repair themselves when they are damaged without the need for detection or repair by manual intervention of any kind. Increasing demand for petroleum feed stocks used to produce polymer and the need for polymeric materials with improved performance in challenging applications continue to drive the need for mater...

Self-healing Deterministic Expanders

We present fully-distributed algorithms that construct and maintain deterministic expander networks (i.e., the expansion properties are deterministically guaranteed) in the presence of an adaptive adversary. To the best of our knowledge, these algorithms are the first distributed implementations of deterministic expanders that work even under an all-powerful adaptive adversary (that has unlimit...