Synthetic materials used in a wide range of applications are prone to damage in the form of
cracking/microcracking. Catastrophic failure of the materials may occur due to the growth …

Self-healing materials (SHEM) have extensive characteristics that significantly influence
structural and polymeric components' damage detection and healing behaviour. The …

Knitted fabrics with easily deformable loop structure have the potential in the development of
shape memory polymeric composites with large recovery deformations. The knitted fabric …

The additive manufacturing of shape memory materials, commonly known as 4D printing,
facilitates the achievement of a complex 3D structure that possesses a temperature …

Materials that can recover the function of lost or damaged parts, called self‐healing
materials, have attracted attention due to their wide usage in different fields such as water …

Traditional cement-based materials are brittle materials with poor toughness and easy
cracking characteristics. The formation of cracks due to drying shrinkage and external load …

Self-healing materials have garnered significant attention for their potential to heal damage
when it occurs. Elastomers, particularly natural rubber, have been a focal point of extensive …

Abstract The Urea-Formaldehyde (UF) microcapsule with in situ polymerization was
fabricated with controlled particles size distributions in order to improve the self-healing …

In this work, the glass fiber–epoxy self-healable composites containing the capsulated
healing agent as smart composite structures were fabricated. Then, the effects of various …

In this study, the epoxy microcapsules with the nanosilica (0, 1, 2, and 3 wt%)—urea
formaldehyde composite shell were synthesized and then characterized by optical …