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Self‐Healing: Continuous Self‐Healing Life Cycle in Vascularized Structural Composites (Adv. Mater. 25/2014)
Author(s) -
Patrick Jason F.,
Hart Kevin R.,
Krull Brett P.,
Diesendruck Charles E.,
Moore Jeffrey S.,
White Scott R.,
Sottos Nancy R.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201470166
Subject(s) - materials science , self healing , composite material , polymerization , composite number , polymer , fracture (geology) , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
By incorporating three‐dimensional microvascular networks within a woven glass fiber‐reinforced polymer composite N. R. Sottos, S. R. White, and co‐workers demonstrate on page 4302 the full recovery (>100%) of mode‐I fracture resistance after multiple damage events. This optical image of a fracture plane reveals efficient delivery, mixing and polymerization of the fluorescently dyed, two‐part reactive healing chemistry.