Exchangeable disulfide bond containing highly flexible epoxy vitrimers with shape‐memory, self‐healing, and UV shielding attributes

• Published in: Polymers for advanced technologies Vol. 35; no. 1
• Main Authors: Dutta, Kalyan, Karak, Niranjan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.01.2024; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Chemical bonds; Curing; Curing agents; dynamic disulfide linkage; Elongation; Epichlorohydrin; epoxy; Epoxy resins; Healing; Oxidation resistance; Radiation shielding; Recyclable materials; self‐healing; Shape memory; Tensile strength; Thin films; Ultraviolet radiation; Vitrimers; VOCs; Volatile organic compounds
• ISSN: 1042-7147; 1099-1581
• DOI: 10.1002/pat.6286

With the rise in momentous resource wastage and severe environmental pollution, a viable path for sustainability is through the use of reprocessable and recyclable materials like vitrimers. Herein, we demonstrated the synthesis of dynamic disulfide‐containing epoxy resin by condensing an amide deriv...