Container-based multifunctional self-healing polymer coatings

Characterization of Microvascular-Based Self-healing Coatings

A protocol is described to assess self-healing of crack damage in a polymer coating deposited on a substrate containing a microvascular network. The bio-inspired coating/substrate design delivers healing agent to cracks in the coating via a three-dimensional microvascular network embedded in the substrate. Through capillary action, monomer flows from the network channels into the crack plane wh...

Nanocomposite Based Multifunctional Coatings

Coaxial electrospinning of self-healing coatings.

2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag Gm The concept of autonomic materials, such as materials which self-repair without external intervention, is a promising alternative to damage tolerant design. Such materials have the ability to repair themselves without external intervention and recover their functionalities by using the resources inherently embedded within or available to them in the local environment. T...

A self healing model based on polymer-mediated chromophore correlations.

Here we present a model of self healing in which correlations between chromophores, as mediated by the polymer, are key to the recovery process. Our model determines the size distribution of the correlation volume using a grand canonical ensemble through a free energy advantage parameter. Choosing a healing rate that is proportional to the number of undamaged molecules in a correlated region, a...

Multifunctional Polymers and Composites for Self-Healing Applications

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