Self-healing Materials; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Self-healing Materials: Fundamentals, Design Strategies, and Applications; 2 Self-healing Polymers and Polymer Composites; 3 Self-Healing Ionomers; 4 Self-healing Anticorrosion Coatings; 5 Self-healing Processes in Concrete; 6 Self-healing of Surface Cracks in Structural Ceramics; 7 Self-healing of Metallic Materials: Self-healing of Creep Cavity and Fatigue Cavity/crack; 8 Principles of Self-healing in Metals and Alloys: An Introduction.
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The book covers self-healing concepts for all important material classes and their applications: polymers, ceramics, non-metallic and metallic coatings, alloys, nanocomposites, concretes and cements, as well as ionomers. Beginning with the inspiration from biological self-healing, its mimickry and conceptual transfer into approaches for the self-repair of artificially created materials, this book explains the strategies and mechanisms for the readers' basic understanding, then covers the different material classes and suitable self-healing concepts, giving examples for their application in pra.