Self-Healing Performance of Multifunctional Polymeric Smart Coatings

Corrosion Sensing Smart Polymeric Coatings

Smart materials cover a wide and developing range in engineering & medical application. This paper presents the “Stimuli-sensitive/smart” polymeric systems which can overcome dramatic property changes responding to small changes in its surrounding environment. Here there is a corrosion resistant or protective smart polymeric coating and paints have been described. Additional smart-coating princ...

Coaxial electrospinning of self-healing coatings.

2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag Gm The concept of autonomic materials, such as materials which self-repair without external intervention, is a promising alternative to damage tolerant design. Such materials have the ability to repair themselves without external intervention and recover their functionalities by using the resources inherently embedded within or available to them in the local environment. T...

Characterization of Microvascular-Based Self-healing Coatings

A protocol is described to assess self-healing of crack damage in a polymer coating deposited on a substrate containing a microvascular network. The bio-inspired coating/substrate design delivers healing agent to cracks in the coating via a three-dimensional microvascular network embedded in the substrate. Through capillary action, monomer flows from the network channels into the crack plane wh...

Microvascular based self-healing polymeric foam

A self-healing microvascular polymeric foam has been developed to improve the resilience of rigid foam core materials for sandwich structures. We investigated the healing of brittle polyisocyanurate (PIR) foam after mode-I crack separation in a 3-point single edge notch bend (SENB) specimen. A two-part healing chemistry based on a commercially available polyurethane (PUR) foam formulation is em...

Nanocomposite Based Multifunctional Coatings