{"id":152818,"date":"2022-12-14T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-robust-self-healing-polymer-made-from-a-common-chemical"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:27:12","slug":"a-robust-self-healing-polymer-made-from-a-common-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-robust-self-healing-polymer-made-from-a-common-chemical","title":{"rendered":"A robust self-healing polymer made from a common chemical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robust-self-healing-polymer-made-from-a-common-chemical.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Material scientists at RIKEN have created a self-healing polymer by using an off-the-shelf compound for the first time. The strategy they used is promising for improving the durability and minimizing the environmental impact of various commercial polymers for a wide range of applications.<\/p>\n<p>Polymers capable of healing themselves when damaged would last longer and thus reduce costs and the burden on the environment. Current strategies for producing self-healing polymers mainly employ reversible <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a>, but this usually entails complex synthesis processes. Furthermore, self-healing mechanisms based on chemical reactions may not work in certain environments such as in water and acidic and alkaline solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/material+scientists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">material scientists<\/a> would like to produce polymers that self-heal under a wide range of conditions, from readily available materials, using simple synthesis processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Material scientists at RIKEN have created a self-healing polymer by using an off-the-shelf compound for the first time. The strategy they used is promising for improving the durability and minimizing the environmental impact of various commercial polymers for a wide range of applications. Polymers capable of healing themselves when damaged would last longer and thus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}