Self-Healing Polymers: Design, Synthesis and Applications on Structural Composite Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 1882
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Interests: fracture and recovery of composite materials; core–shell nanofiber; carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP)
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Dear Colleagues,
Summary: Nature-inspired self-healing strategies have been explored in biomimetic engineering designs, with the aim of restoring structural damage. In addition to cracks on aircraft fuselage and nuclear power plant walls, numerous structures require protection as human activities expand, including areas such as submarine tunnels and spacecraft. In recent years, successful efforts have been made to develop and test a variety of self-healing materials, which are the focus of the current Special Issue. Here, we discuss cutting-edge technologies in such materials and existing healing methods; additionally, we include physical and chemical approaches to constructing self-healing polymers, such as diffusion and flow, shape memory effects, covalent bond reformation and reshuffling, supramolecular chemistry, and heterogeneous systems. We highlight the advantages and challenges of different types of self-healing polymers, such as hydrogen-bonded, metal-coordinated, and ionic as well as dynamic covalent polymers. We showcase some of the promising applications of self-healing polymers in energy, optoelectronics, biomedicine, and aerospace engineering. This Special Issue highlights the advances in and applications of novel self-healing on structural materials and their composites. We also welcome in-depth and comprehensive studies on the physicochemical and mechanical foundations associated with this field.
Dr. Min Wook Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-healing
- self-repair
- structural composite
- mechanical property
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