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Soft Matter. 2015 Feb 04;11(7):1242-52. doi: 10.1039/c4sm02372b.

Self-healing polymer materials constructed by macrocycle-based host-guest interactions.

Soft matter

Xianpeng Yang, Haojie Yu, Li Wang, Rongbai Tong, Muhammad Akram, Yongsheng Chen, Xiaoting Zhai

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 25614350 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02372b

Abstract

Self-healing polymers, which can spontaneously recover themselves after being ruptured, result in enhanced lifetimes for materials and open up a fascinating direction in material science. Macrocycle-based host-guest interactions, one of the most crucial non-covalent interactions, play a key role in self-healing material fabrication. This review aims to highlight the very recent and important progress made in the area of self-healing polymer materials by focusing on cyclodextrins (CDs), crown ethers, cucurbit[n]urils (CBs), calix[n]arenes and pillar[n]arenes with special guest groups and tailored structures. In addition, we also propose future research directions and hope that this review can in a way reflect the current situation and future trends in this developing area.

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