Self-Healing Polymer Coatings Based on Crosslinked Metallosupramolecular Copolymers

Stefan Bode^1,2, Linda Zedler^2,3,4, Felix H. Schacher^1,2, Benjamin Dietzek^2,3,4, Michael Schmitt^2,3, Jürgen Popp^2,3,4, Martin D. Hager^1,2,*, Ulrich S. Schubert^1,2,5,*

Self-healing coating based on metallopolymers are prepared and fully characterized. Iron bisterpyridine complexes are incorporated into a polymer network based on methacrylates, resulting in self-healing properties of these materials. Moreover, the influence of the comonomers on the thermal properties is studied in detail.