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Self-healing Substrates: Fabrication, Properties and Applications

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Self-standing Substrates

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Drawing inspiration from living organisms, inorganic self-healing substrates are the smart materials to revolutionize our world in the next decades. These smart substrates inherit the ability to detect damage and autonomously or non-autonomously heal and restore to its pristine state. The consequence of self-healing offers new route towards sustainable, safer and long lasting materials for multifunctional applications, such as: medicine, energy, construction, food packaging, water treatment and textiles. This chapter explores the preparation of the self-healing substrates from inorganic substrates such as polymers, ceramics and metals; including their healing chemistries and envisioned applications.

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The authors would love to acknowledge the Department of Science and Technology (DST), South Africa, Mintek and National Centre for Nano-Structured Materials (CSIR).

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    Nikiwe Mhlanga

  2. DST/CSIR National Centre for Nanostructured Materials, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

    Keletso Mphahlele

  3. Department of Chemical, Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

    Keletso Mphahlele

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Mhlanga, N., Mphahlele, K. (2020). Self-healing Substrates: Fabrication, Properties and Applications. In: Inamuddin, Boddula, R., Asiri, A. (eds) Self-standing Substrates. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29522-6_8

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