Visible-Light-Induced Self-Healing Diselenide-Containing Polyurethane Elastomer

Shaobo Ji, Wei Cao, Ying Yu and Huaping Xu

Adv. Mater., 201527, 7740-7745.

Visible light is an easily achievable and mild trigger for self-healing materials. By incorporating dynamic diselenide bonds into polyurethane, visible-light-induced self-healing materials can be fabricated. Besides mild visible light, the healing process can also be realized using directional laser irradiation, which makes the system a remotely controllable self-healing system.

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