Self-healing is the capability of a material to recover from physical damage. Both physical and chemical approaches have been used to construct self-healing polymers. These include diffusion and flow, shape-memory effects, heterogeneous self-healing systems, covalent-bond reformation and reshuffling, ...
Materials that possess the ability to self-heal cracks at room temperature, akin to living organisms, are highly sought after. However, achieving crack self-healing in inorganic materials, particularly with covalent bonds, presents a great challenge and
In his book,The Healing Power of Doing Good,Allan Luks tells the story of a well-meaning, charitable woman who desperately wanted to help humankind. Although she was not famous like Mother Teresa, she spent much of her life working with the homeless and destitute. But as time went on, sh...
Thanks to self-healing, materials will be able to live longer and thus have an extended lifetime. This review delves into the key concepts of self-healing in the most commonly used elastomeric matrices in the automotive industry. While a more application-oriented approach is still necessary, ...
The proficient handling of diabetic wounds, a rising issue coinciding with the global escalation of diabetes cases, poses significant clinical difficulties. A range of biofunctional dressings have been engineered and produced to expedite the healing proc
healing to reach a strength of 1.6 MPa that was higher than the original strength of numerous recently reported self-healing polymers. Zhengwei You Supporting information The supporting information is available online athttp://chem.scichina.comandhttp://link.springer.com/journal/11426. The ...
Two guided-wave parameters, namely signals peak value and waveform similarity, were set and correlated with the self-healing capability of specimens. When the specimens were damaged, the peak value of response signals decreases, and the waveform difference between the response signal and reference ...
This system uniquely combines often contradictory sets of properties; it is highly rigid yet can undergo complete self-healing at room temperature. Moreover, the supramolecular glass is an extremely strong adhesive yet it is transparent in a wide spectral range from visible to mid-infrared. This ...
Self-healing polymers have received widespread attention due to their ability to repair damage autonomously and increase material stability, reliability, and economy. However, the processability of self-healing materials has yet to be studied, limiting the application of rich self-healing mechanisms. Add...
A. (2023). Self-Healing Concrete: Concepts, Energy Saving and Sustainability. Energies, 16(4), 1650. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041650 Note that from the first issue of 2016, this journal uses article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics Article ...