Self-Healing Materials: Mechanisms and Educational Insights

This lecture explores self-healing materials, focusing on their biological inspiration, mechanisms, and classifications (intrinsic vs extrinsic). It examines applications in polymers, metals, and concrete, highlighting their role in enhancing sustainability, addressing degradation, and boosting mechanical properties like healing efficiency and fatigue resistance. Key engineering applications in aerospace, civil infrastructure, and energy systems are discussed, followed by challenges such as...