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Dynamic Oxime-Urethane Bonds, a Versatile Unit of High Performance Self-healing Polymers for Diverse Applications

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Oxime-urethane bond featuring with high reversibility even at room temperature and multiple reactivity is an emerging dynamic covalent bond, and has shown great potential for self-healing polymers, which are one of the most attractive development directions for next generation of polymeric materials. In this review, recent progresses on the oxime-urethane-based self-healing polymers, including their designs and applications in diverse fields such as biomedicine, flexible electronics, soft robots, 3D printing, protective materials, and adhesives, are summarized, and outlooks on the future development of this field are discussed.

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2021YFC2101804), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21991123), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (No. 20ZR1402500), Belt & Road Young Scientist Exchanges Project of Science and Technology Commission Foundation of Shanghai (No. 20520741000), Shanghai Belt and Road Joint Laboratory of Advanced Fiber and Low-dimension Materials (Donghua University) (No. 18520750400), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 20DZ2254900), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, DHU Distinguished Young Professor Program (No. LZA2019001).

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Zhang, L., You, Z. Dynamic Oxime-Urethane Bonds, a Versatile Unit of High Performance Self-healing Polymers for Diverse Applications. Chin J Polym Sci 39, 1281–1291 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-021-2625-9

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