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Self Healing Materials pp 19–44Cite as

Self Healing Polymers and Composites

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Structural polymers are susceptible to damage in the form of cracks, which form deep within the structure where detection is difficult and repair is almost impossible. Damage in polymeric coatings, adhesives, microelectronic components, and structural composites can span many length scales. Structural composites subject to impact loading can sustain significant damage on centimeter length scales, which in turn can lead to subsurface millimeter-scale delaminations and micron-scale matrix cracking (Figure 1).

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  1. Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    H. M. Andersson Ph.D

  2. Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Michael W. Keller

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Jeffrey S. Moore Ph.D

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Nancy R. Sottos

  5. Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Scott White Ph.D

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    Sybrand van der Zwaag Ph.D

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Andersson, H.M., Keller, M.W., Moore, J.S., Sottos, N.R., White, S. (2007). Self Healing Polymers and Composites. In: van der Zwaag, S. (eds) Self Healing Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6250-6_2

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