Self-Healing Materials and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear-optical polymers; self-healing polymers; lasers; color entanglment; photomechanical materials; quantum origins of light–matter interaction; mechanisms of self-healing; optical computing; fundamental limits of nonlinear susceptibility; novel mecahanisms of optical nonlinearity; polymer fiber optics; nonlinear-optical devices; photomechanical devices
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2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA 16802, USA
Interests: bioinspired materials and structures; bimaterials; nanomaterials; self healing materials; composites; additive manufacturing
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Dear Colleagues,
Self-healing materials regain functionality after being damaged. For example, chemical decomposition is reversed, cracks mend themselves, and material fragments reconstitute themselves. Examples of applications include structures whose mechanical integrity repairs itself after fracture, lasers that come back to life after optically-induced damage has been caused to the active medium, and materials that reconstitute themselves after being shattered. This Special Issue focuses on all self-healing materials, including polymers, crystals, amorphous materials and composites such as thin films, fibers and bulk materials. The scope of this Special Issue includes material synthesis, processing, characterization, theoretical studies of underlying mechanisms, devices that rely on self-healing, and applications.
Prof. Dr. Mark G. Kuzyk
Dr. Fariborz Tavangarian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- self-healing materials
- structures and systems
- dye-doped polymers
- optical properties
- mechanical properties
- actuators
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