Advanced Self-Healing Polymers
A Special Issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049) belonging to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 190
Editors
Interests: self-healing polymers; shape-memory polymers; adaptive polymers; high performance polymer; stimuli-responsive polymers; polymer solid lubricating materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Self-healing polymers are moving from elegant laboratory concepts to enabling materials for longer-lasting coatings, stretchable electronics, soft robotics, energy devices, and biomedical interfaces. By autonomously repairing microcracks, restoring mechanical integrity, and extending service lifetimes, these systems address a central challenge in sustainable materials design—how to combine performance with durability and circularity. Recent progress is being driven by advances in dynamic chemistries and supramolecular interactions, multiscale architectures, and emerging characterization methods that connect molecular dynamics to macroscopic recovery.
This Special Issue, “Advanced Self-Healing Polymers”, highlights breakthroughs spanning intrinsic and extrinsic healing strategies, vitrimer and dynamic covalent networks, reversible noncovalent motifs, and hybrid or composite systems. We welcome original research and review articles that deliver fundamental insight, innovative design principles, and application-oriented demonstrations, with particular emphasis on quantitative healing metrics, repeatability, and structure–property–function relationships.
Dr. Zenghui Yang
Guest Editor
Dr. Xiaoyue Wang
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- self-healing polymers
- dynamic covalent chemistry
- supramolecular interactions
- vitrimers
- healing kinetics
- multi-stimuli responsiveness
- structure–property–healing relationship
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