Well-Tailored Dynamic Liquid Crystal Networks with Anionically Polymerized Styrene-Butadiene Rubbers toward Modulating Shape Memory and Self-Healing Capacity

Well-tailored construction of liquid crystal networks (LCNs) with simultaneous molecular mobility and mechanical enhancement is desirable. Since the properties of polymeric materials are largely a result of the molecular compositions of polymer chains, in the present work, we demonstrate the tuning compositional synthesis of anionically polymerized random styrene-butadiene rubbers (r-SBRs) with well-controlled 75 wt % butadiene (Bd) contents...