Self-healing materials: fundamentals, design strategies, and applications

Self-healing Materials: Fundamentals, Design Strategies, and Applications explores self-healing concepts for all important material classes and their applications: polymers, ceramics, non-metallic and metallic coatings, alloys, nanocomposites, concretes, and cements, as well as ionomers. Beginning with the inspiration from biological self-healing, its mimickry and conceptual transfer into approaches for the self-repair of artificially created materials, this bookexplains the strategies and mechanisms for the readers' basic understanding, then covers the different material classes and suitable self-healing concepts,giving examples for their application in practical situations. As the first book in this growing research field, it is of great interest to readers from many scientific and engineering disciplines, such as physics and chemistry, civil, architectural, mechanical, electronics, and aerospace engineering. INDICE: General Introduction - Definitions, Mechanisms and Application Areas Self-healing Polymers Self-healing in Non-metallic Coatings Self-healing inMetallic Coatings Self-healing in Nanocomposites Self-healing in Concretes and Cements Self-healing in Ionomers

• ISBN: 978-3-527-31829-2
• Editorial: Wiley-VCH
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 326
• Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés