Intrinsically self-healing polymers: from mechanistic insight to current challenges

B Li, PF Cao, T Saito, AP Sokolov - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-healing materials open new prospects for more sustainable technologies with improved
material performance and devices' longevity. We present an overview of the recent …

[HTML][HTML] Self-healing materials: A review of advances in materials, evaluation, characterization and monitoring techniques

DG Bekas, K Tsirka, D Baltzis, AS Paipetis - Composites Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
Self-healing materials are attracting increasing interest of the research community, over the
last decades, due to their efficiency in detecting and “autonomically” healing damage …

Self-healing organic coatings–Fundamental chemistry to commercial application

M Beach, T Davey, P Subramanian, G Such - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic coatings are susceptible to damage in the form of cracking, leading to the decline
and ultimate failure of functionality, and incurring enormous repair costs. Self-healing …

Recent innovations in nano container-based self-healing coatings in the construction industry

A Thakur, S Kaya, A Kumar - Current Nanoscience, 2022 - benthamdirect.com
Globally, the maintenance and repair of infrastructure cost billions of dollars and impact the
day-to-day life of people. Corrosion of infrastructure and metals used in the manufacture of …

Self-healing polymer composites: prospects, challenges, and applications

IL Hia, V Vahedi, P Pasbakhsh - Polymer Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Self-healing polymer composites possess the inherent ability to heal the damage event
autonomically or non-autonomically with external intervention. These advanced materials …

Advances in the development of biobased epoxy resins: insight into more sustainable materials and future applications

FAMM Gonçalves, M Santos… - International …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The urgent need to replace fossil resource-based products is considerably increasing in the
past few years, resulting in the search for more sustainable materials, with the aim of …

Fifteen chemistries for autonomous external self-healing polymers and composites

XKD Hillewaere, FE Du Prez - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
This review aims at guiding both new and established researchers in the field of self-healing
by providing a clear overview of the fifteen most important chemistries used in autonomous …

A self-healing hydrogel electrolyte for flexible solid-state supercapacitors

J Zhao, J Gong, G Wang, K Zhu, K Ye, J Yan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flexible electrochemical energy storage devices have great potential in wearable and
portable electronic devices. However, their practical applications have been deferred by …

[HTML][HTML] Self-healing epoxy nanocomposites via reversible hydrogen bonding

L Guadagno, L Vertuccio, C Naddeo… - Composites Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of high performance self-healing composites is still at an early stage due
to the difficulty to integrate self-healing mechanisms in their structure by applying current …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional graphene/POSS epoxy resin tailored for aircraft lightning strike protection

M Raimondo, L Guadagno, V Speranza… - Composites Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a first successful attempt to obtain a conductivity mapping at nanoscale
level of a new multifunctional fire retardant graphene/polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane …