Table of Contents

An Introduction to Material Design Principles: Damage Prevention versus Damage Management.- Self Healing Polymers and Composites.- Re-Mendable Polymers.- Thermally Induced Self Healing of Thermosetting Resins and Matrices in Smart Composites.- Ionomers as Self Healing Polymers.- Self Healing Fibre-reinforced Polymer Composites: an Overview.- Self Healing Polymer Coatings.- Self Healing in Concrete Materials.- Self Healing Concrete: A Biological Approach.- Exploring Mechanism of H ealing in Asphalt Mixtures and Quantifying its Impact.- Self Healing in Aluminium Alloys.- Crack and Void Healing in Metals.- Advances in Transmission Electron Microscopy: Self Healing or is Prevention Better than Cure?.- Self Healing in Coatings at High Temperatures.- Hierarchical Structure and Repair of Bone: Deformation, Remodelling, Healing.- Modeling of Self Healing of Skin Tissue.- Numerical Modelling of Self Healing Mechanisms.

Reviews

From the reviews: "There have been discussions of self-healing materials in various journals for some time, this is the first attempt at bringing the current state of knowledge in one place on a broad variety of materials. … the book should be of interest to the entire community of materials scientists working on both structural and functional materials. … will also be suitable as a textbook in a course on self-healing materials at the graduate level. … a unique compilation of state-of-art on this topic." (Ravi Rungta, JOM, March, 2008)