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SupraPolix presents self-healing materials at Materials Engineering 2011

Eindhoven, the Netherlands, March 30, 2011

Sophisticated polymeric materials with “responsive” properties like self healing are beginning to reach the market. SupraPolix uses its proprietary SupraB™-approach to take this design principle to its extreme. The resulting supramolecular plastics, where hydrogen bonds are responsible for the interactions between the polymer chains, are eminently suitable for their use in self healing applications, opening the way to unprecedented properties for plastic objects and specialty coatings.

A flexible SupraB™-material has specifically be designed to self-heal at room temperature, thereby making it possible to simply repair plastic objects by shortly pushing them together without the need for an adhesive, fixatives or high temperatures.

A more rigid SupraB™-polymer has been developed for uses in self-healing coatings or adhesives. Applying a short heating cycle enables the self-repair of a damaged coating or broken seal.

Both self-healing approaches with the new SupraB™-materials will be demonstrated at the Material Engineering Fair this 25th of May in Eindhoven. Please visit us in the MaterialDesign Pavilion.

SupraPolix offers a new concept in the world of plastics by separating the processability demands from the material demands: incorporation of already a small amount of its product SupraB™ in existing plastics dramatically simplifies their processing. As a consequence, production can be cheaper and faster, whereas the consumer will benefit from innovated products with unique material properties like self-healing. Moreover, combining SupraB™ with bio-based materials allows producers to comply with the environmental constraints of the near future without any concession to the quality of the materials.

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