Although thermosetting polymer materials have excellent mechanical properties, they are less self-healing, recycling than thermoplastic polymer materials, which may cause a serious waste of resources. Herein, a series of polyurea materials with high mechanical strength, good properties of self-healing and recycling are prepared by adjusting the ratio of polyether polyol and introducing disulfides into the synthesis of polyurea prepolymer in an innovative way.The composite polyurea (FHPUA) materials with tensile strength over 47 MPa and elongation at break of 720% are prepared. The experimental results show that by adjusting the content of aromatic disulfide, the tensile strength is further increased to 52 MPa, and the heat resistance of the material is improved. Through five self-healing experiments, the surface of the material recovers as before even after continuous heating at 70 C for 1 h. In addition, the tensile strength of the material recovers 86.56% and the elastic modulus recovers 70.21% after four recycling experiments. In practical application, it is expected to fill the shortcomings of traditional polyurea such as micro cracks, short service life and poor performance, and have great potential applications in the fields of coating layer of heavy-duty conveyor belts, encapsulation film of electronic devices and building facade coating.disulfide bonds, high mechanical properties, polyurea, recycling, self-healing
| INTRODUCTIONPolyurea, made from polyisocyanate and polyamine, belongs to a branch of polyurethane materials, which is an excellent synthetic polymeric material. The polar bonds such as urea bonds, 1,2 ester bonds, 3 and ether bonds 4 provided excellent mechanical properties, heat resistance, and solvent resistance to polyurea materials. In addition, the three-dimensional structure by the crosslinking reaction also makes the performance of polyurea materials more excellent. 5 It has been widely used in electronic devices, 6,7 aerospace, 8 rail transportation, 9,10 construction, 11,12 and so on. However, in practical application, it will be damaged to different degrees under the stimulation of light, heat, radiation, and external force, which will not only affect the service life of the material, but also cause safety problems. Therefore, self-healing polyurea materials emerged at the historic moment and set off a research boom. [13][14][15][16][17] The mechanism of action of self-healing polyurea materials benefits from the dynamic reversible reactions of the system, which are generally divided into dynamic covalent interactions, such as disulfide bonds, 18-20 ester bonds, 21 borate ester bonds, 22,23 acyl hydrazone bonds, 24,25 and noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, 18 ionic interactions, 26 and host-object interactions. 27 As we know from the bond energy, the bond energy of disulfide bond