{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(28)"],"submitter":["Park JM"],"pubmed_abstract":["Self-healing ability of materials, particularly polymers, improves their functional stabilities and lifespan. To date, the designs for self-healable polymers have relied on specific intermolecular interactions or chemistries. We report a design methodology for self-healable polymers based on glass transition. Statistical copolymer series of two monomers with different glass transition temperatures (<i>T</i><sub>g</sub>) were synthesized, and their self-healing tendency depends on the <i>T</i><sub>g</sub> of the copolymers and the constituents. Self-healing occurs more efficiently when the difference in <i>T</i><sub>g</sub> between two monomer units is larger, within a narrow <i>T</i><sub>g</sub> range of the copolymers, irrespective of their functional groups. The self-healable copolymers "],"journal":["Science advances"],"pagination":["eadp0729"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11235161"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Glass transition temperature as a unified parameter to design self-healable elastomers."],"pmcid":["PMC11235161"],"pubmed_authors":["Park CS","Sun JY","Park JM","Kwak SK"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Glass transition temperature as a unified parameter to design self-healable elastomers.","description":"Self-healing ability of materials, particularly polymers, improves their functional stabilities and lifespan. To date, the designs for self-healable polymers have relied on specific intermolecular interactions or chemistries. We report a design methodology for self-healable polymers based on glass transition. Statistical copolymer series of two monomers with different glass transition temperatures (<i>T</i><sub>g</sub>) were synthesized, and their self-healing tendency depends on the <i>T</i><sub>g</sub> of the copolymers and the constituents. Self-healing occurs more efficiently when the difference in <i>T</i><sub>g</sub> between two monomer units is larger, within a narrow <i>T</i><sub>g</sub> range of the copolymers, irrespective of their functional groups. The self-healable copolymers ","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jul","modification":"2025-04-05T15:47:56.4Z","creation":"2025-04-05T15:47:56.4Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11235161","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38985860"],"doi":["10.1126/sciadv.adp0729"]}}