Materials with multifunctionality or multiresponsiveness, especially polymers derived from green, renewable precursors, have recently attracted significant attention resulting from their technological impact. Nowadays, vegetable‐oil‐based waterborne polyurethanes (WPUs) are widely used in various fields, while strategies for simultaneous realization of their self‐healing, reprocessing, shape memory as well as high mechanical properties are still highly anticipated. We report development of a multifunctional castor‐oil‐based waterborne polyurethane with high strength using controlled amounts of dithiodiphenylamine. The polymer networks possessed high tensile strength up to 38 MPa as well as excellent self‐healing efficiency. Moreover, the WPU film exhibited a maximum recovery of 100 % of the original mechanical properties after reprocessing four times. The broad glass‐transition temperature of the samples endowed the films with a versatile shape‐memory effect, including a dual‐to‐quadruple shape‐memory effect.

The green synthetic route developed in this study offers a new platform for environmentally friendly emulsifiers for waterborne polyurethanes.

Establishment of both mechanically robust yet facile healable and recyclable epoxy resin systems are highly desirable and still present significant challenges. Herein, by fully utilizing epoxidized vegetable oils and dithiol...

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Although bio-based polymers have been found to be promising coating candidates for controlled-release fertilizers (CRFs), high coating contents are always required to form an efficient physical barrier for achieving desirable...