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An Outlook on Self-healing Materials

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Self-healing materials are the latest categories in smart materials. They can repair the developed crack with the help of some externally provided mechanism. Many researchers around are trying to develop this biological inspired mechanism into engineering materials. This enhanced the materials properties and their life. This paper presents a brief outlook on advancement of self-healing in metals with the help of shape memory alloy and low melting point alloy, and development of self-healing in polymers and self-healing in ceramics.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, DIT University Dehradun, Dehradun, 248001, India

    Nitin Kumar Gupta, Nalin Somani, Tushar Panwar, Nishant Ranaa, Faisal Ahmeda & Abhinav Dimri

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

    Chander Prakash

  2. Centre for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Sunpreet Singh

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland

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Gupta, N.K., Somani, N., Panwar, T., Ranaa, N., Ahmeda, F., Dimri, A. (2023). An Outlook on Self-healing Materials. In: Prakash, C., Singh, S., Krolczyk, G. (eds) Advances in Functional and Smart Materials. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4147-4_26

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