Functional structural nanocomposites with integrated self-healing ability

Functional Metal Matrix Composites: Self-lubricating, Self-healing, and Nanocomposites-An Outlook

Many different types of advanced metal matrix composites are now available, some of which possess functional properties. Recent work on particle-reinforced, self-lubricating and self-healing metals and metal matrix nanocomposites (MMNCs) synthesized by solidification synthesis is reviewed. Particlebased MMNCs have been developed by several modern processing tools based on either solidor liquid-...

Self-healing Ability of Sequential Circuits

1. Introduction Two different ideologies can be considered for handling an error detected in a circuit concurrently with its functioning. The first ideology is based on the immediate marking of the circuit as erroneous when an error is detected. An alternative ideology concentrates on increasing the survivability of the circuit, which means, "to give a chance" to the circuit to continue to work...

Self-healing structural composite materials

A self-healing fiber-reinforced structural polymer matrix composite material is demonstrated. In the composite, a microencapsulated healing agent and a solid chemical catalyst are dispersed within the polymer matrix phase. Healing is triggered by crack propagation through the microcapsules, which then release the healing agent into the crack plane. Subsequent exposure of the healing agent to th...

Functional Nanocomposites from Self-assembly of Block Copolymers with Nanoparticles

Bio-inspired self-healing structural color hydrogel.

Biologically inspired self-healing structural color hydrogels were developed by adding a glucose oxidase (GOX)- and catalase (CAT)-filled glutaraldehyde cross-linked BSA hydrogel into methacrylated gelatin (GelMA) inverse opal scaffolds. The composite hydrogel materials with the polymerized GelMA scaffold could maintain the stability of an inverse opal structure and its resultant structural col...