By Jim Montgomery. Superficially, the value proposition for self-healing materials is self-evident: Who wouldn't want to buy a material that heals itself? Of course, the reality is that most self-healing materials heal only tiny cracks and dings, and the process requires some external initiation (typically heat). Nevertheless, N-tech Research believes even this rather low level of self-repair functionality has tremendous market appeal. Moreover, we anticipate the value proposition will strengthen as more autonomic self-healing materials will enter the market. We project sales of self-healing materials will ...