Quasi-brittle materials such as concrete suffer from cracks during their life cycle, requiring great cost for conventional maintenance or replacement. In the last decades, self-healing materials are developed which are capable of filling and healing the cracks and regaining part of the stiffness and strength automatically after getting damaged, bringing the possibility of maintenance-free mater...

One of the four major processes of an autonomic computing system is to free people from discovering, recovering, and failures, this process is called self-healing. Systems designed to be self-healing are able to heal themselves at runtime in response to changing environmental or operational circumstances. Thus, the goal is to avoid catastrophic failure through prompt execution of remedial actio...

Self-healing technology offers an autonomic route to repairing damage in advanced polymers to extend their lifetime. A variety of self-healing systems have been developed for mechanical self-healing, protective coatings, and electronic self-healing. These self-healing systems rely on functional groups within the polymer, microvascular networks, or compartmentalization in capsules and particles....

The term and characteristic of self-healing, applied to systems, is often seen from different fields of computer science, such as fault tolerance or network and service management, with diverging semantics. Since this impression was confirmed also during the first discussions of the Dagstuhl seminar on ”Self-Healing and Self-Adaptive Systems”, a seminar’s working group on ”Terminology” was form...

Given increasing environmental and energy issues, mimicking nature to confer synthetic materials with self-healing property to expand their lifespan is highly desirable. Just like human skin recovers itself upon damage with the aid of nutrient-laden blood vascularization, designing smart materials with microvascular network to accelerate self-healing is workable but continues to be a challenge....