Light-triggered self-healing and shape-memory polymers
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In this review, we highlight the recent progress made in light-controlled self-healing and shape memory polymers. We analyse the materials design, underlying mechanisms and chemistries involved in the different methods developed for these two types of emerging photoresponsive materials. We show that these two seemingly different groups of functional materials are linked by a number of common approaches enabling their optical control, particularly the approaches based on the photothermal effect and photochemical reactions of photoswitching groups incorporated in polymer structures. Possible future developments and perspectives of using light as a unique trigger for polymer self-healing and shape-memory are also discussed.
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In photo-responsive systems, the light source allowed both programming and recovery processes through the presence of photo-sensitive functional groups along the polymer chain, in contrast to the photo-thermal effect where light is only used during recovery.
“In contrast to the photo-thermal effect, where the light is only used during the sample recovery process and not in the programming of the temporary shape, in the case of the photo-responsive systems the light source allowed to achieve both processes through the presence of photo-sensitive functional groups along the polymer chain [51,52].”
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- Authors
- Habault, D., Zhang, H., & Zhao, Y.
- Affiliations
- Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Zhao, Yue
- Venue
- Chemical Society Reviews
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2013
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 7244
- ISSN
- 0306-0012 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-4744
- OpenAlex
- W2083574954
- Cited by
- 662
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 55 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 94 · 2018: 72 · 2017: 51 · 2016: 45 · 2015: 39 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 6
- FWCI
- 3.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Chemical Society Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies
- China Scholarship Council
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Polymers and Plastics › Polymer composites and self-healing
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Photopolymerization techniques and applications
- Keywords
- shape memory polymers, photoresponsive polymers, photothermal effect, photochemical reactions
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