Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to a composition that includes a rotaxane. The rotaxane includes a plurality of macrocyclic rings and a polymer with a molecular weight below 10,000 Da that is covalently appended to one or more sterically hindered molecules. The cavities of the macrocyclic rings are threaded onto the polymer. The plurality of threaded macrocyclic rings include a plurality of different segments that each include a plurality of threaded macrocyclic rings. Each of the plurality of different segments is in the form of a crystalline network. Further embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of forming the rotaxanes by covalently appending one or more sterically hindered molecules onto a polymer and threading a plurality of macrocyclic rings onto the polymer. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of manufacturing a three-dimensional structure by applying a composition of the present disclosure onto a surface.

A composition for preparing a polycaprolactone shape memory material, and a polycaprolactone shape memory material, a preparation method therefor, and a use thereof are provided. The material contains a plurality of modified polyrotaxane macromolecular chains, and a plurality of composite macromolecular chains connected to different modified polyrotaxane macromolecular chains, wherein each of the composite macromolecular chains comprises at least two segments of polycaprolactone macromolecular chains, a reversible linking group between different polycaprolactone macromolecular chains, and a linking modification group for linking cyclodextrin-derived cyclic structures comprised in the polycaprolactone macromolecular chains and the modified polyrotaxane macromolecular chains. The reversible linking group is a photo-reversible linking group or a thermally reversible linking group. The network topology defect of a polymer is adjusted to improve the toughness of the shape memory material to improves its designability and solid remoldability.

The present invention provides a polyrotaxane having a chemical structure in which an axial molecule represented by Formula (2) is threaded into a cyclodextrin ring in a compound represented by Formula (1). In Formula (1), CD is a cyclodextrin ring, L.sup.2 is a divalent organic group, L.sup.3 is an ethylene group or a propylene group, R.sup.A is a hydrogen atom or a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, and m is an integer of 0 to 35. Provided that when L.sup.2 and N are linked by a double bond, R.sup.A is not present. In Formula (2), R is a hydrocarbon group larger than an inner diameter of the cyclodextrin ring, X is a divalent organic group, and a is an integer of 100 to 1000.

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A non-aqueous secondary battery binder polymer including a first structural unit derived from a monomer (a1), a second structural unit derived from a monomer (a2), and a third structural unit derived from a monomer (a3), wherein the monomer (a1) is a non-ionic compound having only one ethylenically unsaturated bond, the monomer (a2) is a compound having a carboxy group and only one ethylenically unsaturated bond, and the monomer (a3) is a polyrotaxane including a cyclic molecule having a cyclic framework to which a group containing an ethylenically unsaturated bond is bonded and a chain molecule that passes through an openings of the cyclic molecule and has stopper groups at both ends.

Provided is a composition comprising: a vitrimer including a polymer having an ester bond; and a polyrotaxane including a plurality of cyclic molecules and a chain polymer penetrating cavities of the plurality of cyclic molecules, at least part of the plurality of cyclic molecules each including a functional group having an ester bond.