[HTML][HTML] Self-healing materials: A review of advances in materials, evaluation, characterization and monitoring techniques

DG Bekas, K Tsirka, D Baltzis, AS Paipetis - Composites Part B …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Self-healing materials are attracting increasing interest of the research community, over the
last decades, due to their efficiency in detecting and “autonomically” healing damage …

Cracks, microcracks and fracture in polymer structures: Formation, detection, autonomic repair

F Awaja, S Zhang, M Tripathi, A Nikiforov… - Progress in Materials …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Polymers and polymer composites are susceptible to premature failure due to the formation
of cracks and microcracks during their service time. Evolution of cracks and microcracks …

Self-healing polymer composites: prospects, challenges, and applications

IL Hia, V Vahedi, P Pasbakhsh - Polymer Reviews, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Self-healing polymer composites possess the inherent ability to heal the damage event
autonomically or non-autonomically with external intervention. These advanced materials …

Self-healing of polymers and polymer composites

VI Irzhak, IE Uflyand, GI Dzhardimalieva - Polymers, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
This review is devoted to the description of methods for the self-healing of polymers, polymer
composites, and coatings. The self-healing of damages that occur during the operation of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of multifunctional polymer-matrix structural composites

DDL Chung - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2019‏ - Elsevier
This paper reviews multifunctional structural materials, particularly continuous fiber polymer-
matrix composites. The non-structural functions include sensing, EMI shielding, heating …

Inclusion of a thermoplastic phase to improve impact and post-impact performances of carbon fibre reinforced thermosetting composites—A review

NH Nash, TM Young, PT McGrail, WF Stanley - Materials & Design, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Infusion processing methods have become a popular manufacturing alternative to the
autoclave procedure to meet the increased demand for high-performance composites with …

Intrinsic self-healing epoxies in polymer matrix composites (PMCs) for aerospace applications

S Paolillo, RK Bose, MH Santana, AM Grande - Polymers, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
This article reviews some of the intrinsic self-healing epoxy materials that have been
investigated throughout the course of the last twenty years. Emphasis is placed on those …

Progress in self‐healing fiber‐reinforced polymer composites

A Cohades, C Branfoot, S Rae, I Bond… - Advanced Materials …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper sets out to review the current state of the art in applying self‐healing/self‐repair to
high‐performing advanced fiber‐reinforced polymer composite materials (FRPs). A …

Prolonged in situ self-healing in structural composites via thermo-reversible entanglement

AD Snyder, ZJ Phillips, JS Turicek… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Natural processes continuously degrade a material's performance throughout its life cycle.
An emerging class of synthetic self-healing polymers and composites possess property …

Self-healing composites for aerospace applications

R Das, C Melchior, KM Karumbaiah - Advanced composite materials for …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Self-healing materials are those that imitate living organisms in respect to their remarkable
ability to heal themselves when they are injured. The development is seen in many ways …