High-performance fluorous and ionic polymers for self-healing and self-assembly applications

Abstract

The utilization of self-healing in a specific polymeric system for a particular application is the key concern. Fluoropolymer and ionic polymer are regarded as high-performance polymer due to their significant use in a wide range of applications such as aeronautics, aerospace, selfstratifying coating, electronics, films, paints, soft robotics, 3D/4D printing, neural prostheses,implantable biosensors, artificial skin to tissue engineering. Synthetic self-healing polymeric materials having versatile physical and robust mechanical properties are highly desirable for widespread practical applications with long-term persistence, extend the safety index and sustainability with minimizing system breakdown and repair maintenance, and reducing system breakdown. Further, the reorganization of molecules in a particular defined order nanostructure or pattern without any external forces is refer to as self-assembly and this type of polymeric materials are highly important in biological applications such as controlled drug delivery in nano-reactors or as biomimetics, medicinal chemistry and so on. Hence, we have developed the self-healing and self-assembly in the fluorous and ionic polymeric systems in various way along with multifunctional physical and mechanical properties such as hydrophobicity, modulus, high tensile strength and fracture energy, ultra-stretchable, conducting behavior, fluorescent properties. This doctoral thesis is dedicated to developing fluorous and ionic polymers for self-healing and self-assembly with emerging multifunctional physical and inherent mechanical properties. The thesis is divided into seven chapters, based on the scope and utilization of self healing and self-assembly polymers with specific functionality towards various targeted application.