2026 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 5-12
A supramolecular crosslinked structure was incorporated to improve the performance of highly deformable and flexible polymeric soft materials like hydrogels, making them more elastic and enabling self-healing capability as maintenance-free property. This structure contains two photo-responsive guest molecules inside a host cavity, forming a host-guest inclusion complex. Using this supramolecular formation, we show that the viscoelasticity of hydrogels can be controlled in response to photo-stimuli. In addition, we provide an example of achieving self-healing properties in water-based solid coating prepared through a water medium.
