Self-healing polymer coatings based on crosslinked metallosupramolecular copolymers.

Bode, Stefan; Zedler, Linda; Schacher, Felix H; Dietzek, Benjamin; Schmitt, Michael; Popp, Jürgen; Hager, Martin D; Schubert, Ulrich S · Adv Mater · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Self-healing coating based on metallopolymers are prepared and fully characterized. Iron bisterpyridine complexes are incorporated into a polymer network based on methacrylates, resulting in self-healing properties of these materials. Moreover, the influence of the comonomers on the thermal properties is studied in detail.