Endeavour to balance mechanical properties and self-healing of nature rubber by increasing covalent crosslinks via a controlled vulcanization

Introducing covalent crosslinks into reversible supramolecular networks would effectively improve their mechanical strengths, but sacrificed the desired self-healing effect. So, it is a practical significance to explore the influence of irreversible covalent crosslinks on self-healing behavior to prepare self-healing rubbers with enhanced mechanical properties for further application. In this study, the trade-off of covalent crosslinks between...