By Lawrence Gasman, N-Tech Research. The three trends that we are seeing and which we think are most notable in the smart materials space are (1) the growing role of biomaterials and biomimetics in the design and creation of self-healing materials, (2) improving performance from commercial products and (3) the emergence of self-healing concrete as a real product. These are not entirely independent developments. N-tech believes that reversible polymers will continue to have the largest share of the self-healing market - in ...