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ReviewPolymers2026

Wood/Dynamic Covalent Polymer Network Composites.

Jiaxi Kuang, Wanting Wang, Shuqi Shang, Ziyi Yan, Lianpeng Zhang, Kaimeng Xu, Linkun Xie, Huanbo Wang, Tian Liu

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Review in Polymers, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jiaxi KuangYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.ORCID 0009-0003-1067-3233
Wanting WangYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
Shuqi ShangYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
Ziyi YanYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
Lianpeng ZhangYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2649-8623
Kaimeng XuYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3466-2486
Linkun XieYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6074-8748
Huanbo WangYunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Wood Adhesives and Glued Products, International Joint Research Center for Biomass Materials, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China.
Tian LiuKey Laboratory of Bio-Based Material Science and Technology, Engineering Research Center of Advanced Wooden Materials, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.

Funding

Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology 202501AU070060
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wood, a renewable and sustainable resource with a hierarchical porous structure, exhibits significant potential for functional composites through integration with polymers. Wood/polymer composites are typically fabricated either via polymer impregnation into wood or through blending of wood powder with thermoplastic polymers to produce wood-plastic composites (WPCs). However, conventional thermosetting polymers cannot be reshaped or reprocessed, while thermoplastic polyolefins often exhibit poor compatibility with wood powder. Dynamic covalent polymer networks (DCPNs), which incorporate reversible covalent bonds into thermoset matrices, enable network reconfiguration in response to external stimuli such as heat. Replacing conventional polymers with DCPNs in delignified wood yields transparent wood with programmable shape-memory, photo-luminescent, and thermochromic properties, enabling the fabrication of advanced materials. DCPN-impregnated delignified wood is also reprocessable and degradable. Similarly, incorporating DCPNs into carbonized wood produces electrode materials with enhanced plasticity, shape-memory behavior, reshaping ability, and self-healing properties. DCPNs can replace thermoplastic polyolefins as matrices in WPCs. Consequently, repairable and reprocessable wood powder/DCPN composites can be fabricated with potential for carbon storage applications. This mini-review summarizes recent advances in wood/DCPN composites, focusing on two main fabrication approaches: DCPN impregnation into delignified wood and blending of DCPNs with wood powder. Wood/DCPN composites combine the characteristics of wood and dynamic DCPNs and have the potential to become an efficient, eco-friendly, and sustainable form of processing and utilization of wood.

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compositesdynamic covalent polymer networksreprocessibilityshape-memorywood

Identifiers

PMID42280536
PMCPMC13259220

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