Recent studies have shown that the largest employed thermoset family, polyurethanes (PUs), has great potential to be reprocessed due to the dynamic behavior of carbamate linkage. However, it requires high temperatures, especially in the case of aliphatic PUs, which causes side reactions besides the desired exchange reaction. To facilitate the reprocessing of aliphatic PUs, in this work, we have explored the dynamic potential of alkoxyamine bonds in PU networks to facilitate the reprocessing under mild conditions considering their fast recombination ability. Taking advantage of the structural effect of the nitroxide and alkyl radicals on the dissociation energy, two different alkoxyamine-based diols have been designed and synthesized to generate PU networks. Our study shows that replacing 50 mol % of a nondynamic diol chain extender with these dynamic blocks boosts the relaxation times of the networks, enabling reprocessing at temperatures as low as 80 °C.

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