European Coatings Journal - 01.09.2014 | Gerald O. Wilson | TECHNICAL PAPER

Medicines for a longer life

Gerald O. Wilson Gerald O. Wilson, Autonomic Materials, Inc. T +1 217 863-2023 Self-healing materials are a class of smart materials that are capable of repairing themselves when damaged, at ambient temperature, without any external intervention [1, 2]. Self-healing in materials is a biomimetic concept modelled after the capability of biological systems to repair or regenerate themselves automatically and without any external or deliberate control (autonomically) after damage. Given this definition of self-healing technology and ...
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