Room-Temperature Self-Healing Glassy Luminescent Hybrid Film

Abstract

The self-healing of glassy polymer materials on site has always been a huge challenge due to their frozen polymer network. We herein report self-repairable glassy luminescent film by assembling a lanthanide-containing polymer with randomly hyperbranched polymers possessing multiple hydrogen (H) bonds. Because of multiple H bonds, the hybrid film exhibits enhanced mechanical strength, with high glass transition temperature (T_g) of 40.3 °C and high storage modulus of 3.52 GPa, meanwhile, dynamic exchange of multiple H bonds enables its rapid room-temperature self-healing ability. This research provides new insights in preparing mechanical robust yet repairable polymeric functional materials.