Yongqian Shi

May 11, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Yongqian Shi |Gang Tang |Jun Sun |Ye-Tang Pan

IntroductionThermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) has a unique structure of alternating soft and hard segments, which endows it with special properties unmatched by other elastomers, including high strength, high wear resistance, aging resistance, and a wide range of hardness (Yu et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2021a; Luo et al., 2022).