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Thermally mendable material based on a furyl-telechelic semicrystalline polymer and a maleimide crosslinker

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Based on Diels-Alder reaction, a furyl-telechelic semicrystalline polycaprolactone was crosslinked by a tris-maleimide crosslinker. The synthesized precursors and network were fully characterized via proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopies, gel permeation chromatography (GPC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and wide-angle powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. The obtained material showed mendability of scratches under thermal treatment, as evidenced by optical microscopy and tensile analysis. The mending process was a combination of the shape recovery effect favoring scratch closure and the re-crosslinking of the cleaved Diels-Alder bonds at temperatures slightly above the melting transition of polycaprolactone chains. A scratch healing efficiency determined by tensile tests of about 70 % was achieved.

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Acknowledgments

This research was fully supported by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under grant number “104.02-2013.19”.

Viet Q. Nguyen is acknowledged for the assistance with the FT-IR and GPC measurements. Tri M. Phan is acknowledged for the assistance with the tensile tests.

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    Le-Thu T. Nguyen, Ha Tran Nguyen & Thuy Thu Truong

  2. Materials Technology Key Laboratory (Mtlab), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Ha Tran Nguyen

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Nguyen, LT.T., Nguyen, H.T. & Truong, T.T. Thermally mendable material based on a furyl-telechelic semicrystalline polymer and a maleimide crosslinker. J Polym Res 22, 186 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-015-0827-y

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