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Self-Healing Materials
Principles and Technology
This book offers a thorough grounding in self-healing material technology to facilitate development of a wide range of real-world applications
George Wypych (Author)
9781927885239, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 31 May 2017
262 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg
"I would strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in this growing field of self-healing materials. The chapters are brief, the references are excellent, though there are no problem sets. I found myself looking up several references that claimed my interest, and I credit the book with giving a clear and thorough overview of the field. Accordingly, readers should not expect details, but rather guidance toward future reading." --MRS Bulletin
Self-Healing Materials: Principles and Technology is a practical book aimed at giving engineers and researchers in both industry and academia the information they need to deploy self-healing technology in a wide range of potential applications—from adhesives to the automotive industry, and from electronics to biomedical implants. Developments are increasingly seeing real-world application, and this book enables practitioners to use this technology in their own work. The book first discusses the principal mechanisms of self-healing and how these are applied to the development of materials which have the ability to repair themselves—either with minimal human intervention or without human intervention at all. The book provides a theoretical background and a review of the major research undertaken to date, to give a thorough grounding in this concept and related technology. The book specifically covers fault detection mechanisms in materials, and experimental methods to enable engineers to assess the efficiency of the self-healing process. It then discusses typical aids and additives in self-healing materials, including plasticizers, catalysts, shape-memory components, and more. Finally, the book contains real world examples of self-healing materials and how these have been applied to around 40 groups of products and industries, including materials used in the automotive industry, construction, composite materials for aerospace, biomaterials and materials used in medical devices, and adhesives and sealants.
1. Introduction. Lessons from Living Things2. Mechanisms of Self-healing3. Chemical and Physical Processes Occurring During Self-Healing of Polymers4. Fault Detection Mechanisms5. Triggering and Tuning the Healing Processes6. Activation Energy of Self-Healing7. Means of Delivery of Healant to the Defect Location8. Self-healing Timescale9. Self-healing Extent10. Molecular Dynamics Simulation11. Morphology of Healing12. Selected Experimental Methods in Evaluation of Self-healing Efficiency13. Additives and Chemical Structures Used in Self-healing Technology14. Self-healing of Different Polymers15. Self-healing in Different Products
Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Plastics & polymers technology [TDCP]
