Self-Healing Composite Materials: From Design to Applications

Self-Healing Composite Materials: From Designs to Applications provides a unique resource on self-healing composites for materials scientists and engineers in academia, as well as researchers involved in the aerospace, automotive, wind-generation, construction, consumer goods and marine industries. There is a huge demand for self-healing composites that respond to their environment like living matter. Unlike other composites, self-healing composites are combined with carbon materials and resins to form a recoverable composite material. This book covers the manufacturing, design and characterization of self-healing composites, including their morphological, structural, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties.

The title begins with mathematical background and then considers innovative approaches to physical modeling, analysis and design techniques, providing a robust knowledge of modern self-healing composites with commercial applications.

Covers composite fabrication from polymer, nano oxides, epoxy and plasticsGives detailed examples on how self-healing composites may be usedProvides readers with a robust knowledge of self-healing compositesPresents a unified approach to these human-friendly, commercially valuable materials

1. Electrically conductve self healing materials: preparation, properties and applications
2. Basics of self-healing composite materials
3. Self-healing polymers for composite structural applications
4. Potential self-healing functionality in a composite structure: methodology and applications
5. Carbon self-repairing porous hybrid composites
6. Self-repairing property of polymer network with dangling chains
7. Self-Healing materials through self-mending polymers and composites
8. Self-Healing composite coatings with protective and anticorrosion potentials
9. Graphene based self healing materials
10. Enhancements in self-curing composites
11. Principle and mechanism of self-repair of polymer matrix composite materials
12. Composites for self-repairing covering to hinder corrosion
13. Synthesis of carbon self-repairing porous hybrid composites for supercapacitors
14. Effect of self-healing on zeolite-immobilized bacterial cementitious mortar composites
15. Self-Healing Concrete-Based Composites for Infrastructures
16. Development of self-healing carbon/epoxy composites
17. Self-repairing hollow fiber composites
18. Self-healing of Structural Composites containing common Thermoplastics enabled or not by Nanotechnology as Healing Agent
19. Concept of self-repair and efficiency measurement in polymer matrix composite
20. Self-healing fiber reinforced epoxy composite
21. Mechanical Behavior of Self-Healing PEI/PAA Multi-level Polymer Films