Self-healing material, defined

Once the fracture toughness is obtained, we can define the healing efficiency of self-healing materials from the mixed mode fracture resistance as... 

White and co-workers were the first group to report a microencapsulation-based self-healing system (16). Their work has inspired much progress in the area of self-healing materials research. For the purposes of the discussion presented herein, the recent literature on self-healing materials has been classified as autonomic healing and non-autonomic healing defined as follows ... 

Self-healing polymers are defined as polymeric materials capable of reforming bonds, and healing, in response to damage [53]. This research is driven by the vision that, in the future, damaged materials may not have to be replaced so often. 

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