Biological Archetypes for Self-Healing Materials

Remembering Roots to the Shamanic: Dance Archetypes for Healing Self and Tribe Dicki Johnson Macy, Boston Children’s Foundation

Self-Healing and Damage Resilience for Soft Robotics: A Review

Advances in soft robotics will be crucial to the next generation of robot–human interfaces. Soft material systems embed safety at the material level, providing additional safeguards that will expedite their placement alongside humans and other biological systems. However, in order to function in unpredictable, uncontrolled environments alongside biological systems, soft robotic systems should b...

Feasibility study on self-healing compliant actuators

Natural organisms have a unique property not yet available in robotics, a self-healing (SH) ability. This powerful biological healing function has inspired chemists to impart similar properties to synthetic materials to create “self-healing materials”. Recent development in SH-polymers made us investigate the potential of using these materials in robotics, and more specifically in compliant act...

Fracture Testing of a Self-Healing Polymer Composite*

Inspired by biological systems in which damage triggers an autonomic healing response, we have developed a polymer composite material that can heal itself when cracked. This paper summarizes the self-healing concept for polymeric composite materials and investigates fracture mechanics issues consequential to the development and optimization of this new class of materials. The self-healing mater...

Bioinspired and Biomimetic Self-Healing of Advanced Composite Materials

INTRODUCTION Conceptual inspiration from nature is not new, and many engineering approaches can be considered to have been inspired by observing natural systems. The healing potential and repair strategies of living organisms is increasingly of interest to designers seeking lower mass structures with increased service life who wish to progress from a conventional damage tolerance philosophy. Na...