Dynamically tuning transient silicone polymer networks with hydrogen bonding.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Yepremyan, Akop; Osamudiamen, Andrew; Brook, Michael A.; Feinle, Andrea
- Source
- Chemical Communications. 11/14/2020, Vol. 56 Issue 88, p13555-13558. 4p.
- Subject
- *POLYMER networks
*HYDROGEN bonding
*SUPRAMOLECULAR polymers
*SILICONES
- Language
- ISSN
- 1359-7345
Supramolecular polymers are composed of non-covalently connected chains and characterized by high chain dynamics. The viscoelastic behavior of supramolecular telechelic sugar-siloxanes – ranging from solids to viscous fluids able to form transient polymer networks – is readily tuned by the fraction of internal HO groups that can intermolecularly form hydrogen bonds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]