ArticlePolymers2026
Disulfide-Crosslinked Polyurethane-Modified Asphalt: Balancing Fatigue Resistance and Healing Through Dynamic Covalent Networks.
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- Study on the Performance of Modified Asphalt Mixture Incorporating MSWI Bottom Ash.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Design, Performance and Mechanisms of Asphalt Modified with Polyurethane and Hydroxylated Crumb Rubber.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Thermosetting polyurethane (PU) has recently been introduced as an asphalt modifier to improve the mechanical strength and durability of pavements. However, the permanent crosslinked network of thermosetting PU makes the material difficult to repair once damage accumulates. In contrast, self-healing asphalt technologies rely on either extrinsic healing agents or intrinsic dynamic bonds to restore stiffness and delay cracking. Dynamic disulfide bonds are a promising class of reversible covalent bonds that can rearrange at moderate temperatures and have been widely used to build self-healing polyurethane networks. This study investigates a disulfide-crosslinked polyurethane-modified asphalt binder (DP10) and compares its fatigue and healing performance with base asphalt (BA), thermosetting PU-modified asphalt (P10), and styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS)-modified asphalts (S3 and S10). A dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) was used to conduct time sweep fatigue tests, linear amplitude sweep (LAS) tests, and fatigue-healing-fatigue protocols. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was employed to confirm the formation of polyurethane and disulfide structures. Results show that DP10 significantly increases fatigue life at small to medium strain levels compared with BA and P10 and performs competitively with SBS-modified binders. More importantly, DP10 exhibits a much higher healing index than P10 and maintains strong healing capability over repeated fatigue-healing cycles, approaching the intrinsic healing level of base asphalt. These findings demonstrate that incorporating dynamic disulfide bonds into thermosetting PU networks provides a practical route to binders that combine high strength with recoverability, which is attractive for long-life, self-healing pavement design.
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