Synthesis and characterization of silverthiolate dynamic crosslinking waterborne polyurethane with room-temperature self-healing properties

• Published in: Materials advances Vol. 3; no. 16; pp. 669 - 6618
• Main Authors: Zhang, Mengyun, Ding, Shanjun, Cong, Riming, Luo, Yunjun
• Format: Journal Article
• Published: 15.08.2022

Waterborne polyurethanes (WPUs), commonly used as coatings and adhesives, produce microcracks when suffering from severe environmental stimuli or continuous mechanical loads. So far, there have only been limited self-healing functional groups, such as disulfide bonds, or DielsAlder reactions, utiliz...