Self-Healing Materials; Materials That Can Return to their Original State after Suffering Damage, Cut, or Fracture

 

Self-Healing Materials

Self-Healing Materials are synthetically-formed and/or artificial materials, which have the inherent ability to automatically repair damages without any external intervention. Such materials have the potential to autonomously heal themselves after being damaged, which makes them very useful in a variety of applications, from cars to space craft. The self-healing ability of some materials is due to chemical mechanisms that allow the molecules in a material to reform themselves after damage occurs. This can happen through irreversible and/or reversible covalent bond formation, hydrogen bonding, metal-ligand interactions or ionic interactions.

Over the years, Self-Healing Materials have opened up some new possibilities, pointing towards a future of space ships that can repair their holes without any external intervention and scratch-resistant car paints. The research team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany) and Penn State University (US) has developed a new self-healing material to find a more reliable and durable alternative for soft robot actuators. The new Self-Healing Materials is claimed to work faster that can heal itself in a second. The team of researchers has now developed a promising solution or material that can heal itself in a second.

However, some of Self-Healing Materials have a problem, they cannot function in water or acidic or alkali solutions, as the chemical networks cannot survive such conditions. To solve this, researchers have created new type of plastic that can self-heal even in such situations. This is a remarkable property for the material, as it is something that has not been seen before in this type of technology. In order to make it work, the researchers have used a special kind of polymer that’s designed to respond to different electromagnetic fields. Various types of self-healing materials have been developed over the years, and have the ability to fully or partially recover its original set of properties.

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