Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole

By Seungwan Cho, S. Hwang, D. Oh, Jeyoung Park. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021

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Reversible boronic ester-based polymers/hydrogels achieve cutting-edge biomedical applications including drug delivery, adhesion, bioimplants, healthcare monitoring by self-healing, injectability, biocompatibility, multi-responsiveness to stimuli.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Molecular Medicine, Polymers and Plastics

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