Dongfei Zhang,Ao Wang,Wenkai Liu,Ao Zhen,Jiehua Li,Feng Luo,Xianglong Han,Zhen Li,Hong Tan
The reported dynamic covalent bonds (DCBs) exhibit certain drawbacks, including sluggish reaction rates and high dissociation temperatures, which impede the reusability of DCBs cross-linked polymers. Herein, we develop a kind of imidazole-urea bond (IUBs) through the rapid self-catalytic reaction between imidazole and isocyanate without additional catalysts. The IUBs are found to be highly reversible via a thermally dissociative mechanism while also demonstrating an irreversible exchange with amines. Then, histamine (1H-imidazole-4-ethanamine) is first employed as a chain extender to construct IUBs in the synthesis of novel imidazole-based cross-linked polyurethane-ureas (IMCPU). The IMCPU can undergo multiple recyclings of melt processing and be aminolyzed even at room temperature. Given the wide availability of the commodity histamine, IMCPU exhibits great potential for broad applications in the fields of dynamic materials.
It is exceedingly desired, but difficult to construct self-healing materials with both excellent mechanical properties and healing efficiency, which are usually realized by using mutually exclusive methods. Here, we reconcile this contradiction by utilizing copper-bis-(imidazole-2-yl)-methane-urea (Cu-BIMU) locked units based on novel designed dynamic imidazole-urea bonds with coupled multiple noncovalent bonds (coordination bonds, π − π stacking bonds, and hydrogen bonds). The coordination of Cu(II) greatly reduces the electron-cloud density of imidazole, which lowers the free energy barrier of imidazole-urea bonds and promotes their reversible dissociation, as demonstrated by the density functional theory and small-molecule model reaction. The topological design of Cu-BIMU polyurethane (Cu-BIMU-PU), which concentrates multiple crosslinking-in-one locked unit to avoid the formation of excessive crosslinking sites to ensure high chain mobility, facilitates self-healing. Accumulative extensive intermolecular interactions endowed excellent mechanical properties to the resulting Cu-BIMU-PU elastomer with a tensile strength of 65.3 MPa, among the highest ever-reported value. This work provides a novel molecular design principle for fabricating high-performance dynamic polymers.
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