2014 journal article

Self-Healing: Continuous Self-Healing Life Cycle in Vascularized Structural Composites (Adv. Mater. 25/2014)

Advanced Materials, 26(25), 4189–4189.

By: J. Patrick*, K. Hart*, B. Krull*, C. Diesendruck *, J. Moore *, S. White*, N. Sottos *

co-author countries: United States of America πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
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By incorporating three-dimensional microvascular networks within a woven glass fiber-reinforced polymer composite N. R. Sottos, S. R. White, and co-workers demonstrate on page 4302 the full recovery (>100%) of mode-I fracture resistance after multiple damage events. This optical image of a fracture plane reveals efficient delivery, mixing and polymerization of the fluorescently dyed, two-part reactive healing chemistry.