What is it about?
This article reviews the different ways in which composite materials can be made to heal themselves and suggests future research directions in the area of self-healing materials.
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Why is it important?
With 173 references covering self-healing material research over the past fifteen years, this is an extensive and up-to-date review article which we believe will be particularly useful to new researchers in the area.
Perspectives
Research in self-healing materials is relatively young. Much more can be done to create materials that are as good as their biological counterparts at repairing themselves. We have chosen an open-access platform for this article to make it widely available to the research community and encourage work in this new field.
Duc Pham
University of Birmingham
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This page is a summary of: Self-healing composites: A review, Cogent Engineering, August 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2015.1075686.
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