Montero de Espinosa, Lucas Fiore, Gina L. Weder, Christoph Foster, E. Johan Simon, Yoan C. 2015 The reversible nature of non-covalent interactions between constituting building blocks permits one to temporarily disassemble supramolecular polymers through the application of an appropriate external stimulus “on command”. This framework has recently emerged as a general design strategy for the development of healable polymer systems. The approach exploits that the temporary disassembly decreases the molecular weight and in the case of cross-linked polymers the cross-link density, and thereby causes an increase of the chain mobility and a reduction of the viscosity of the material. The transformation thus enables the disassembled material to flow and fill defects, before the original supramolecular polymer is re-assembled. Focusing on recent progress in the area of healable supramolecular polymer solids based on hydrogen-bonding, metal-ligand and π–π interactions, as well as supramolecular nanocomposites, this review article summarizes the development and current state of the field. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/304660 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/304660/files/Montero_Prog_Polym_Sci_HealableSMPs.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2015.04.003 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Progress in Polymer Science. - 2015, vol. 49-50, p. 60-78 Healable polymer, Hydrogen bonding, Metallosupramolecular, Self-healing, Supramolecular nanocomposite, Supramolecular polymer info:eu-repo/classification/udc/54 Healable Supramolecular Polymer Solids http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501