Anticorrosion and Recovery Properties of Self-Healing Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Engineering constructions suffer from corrosion and cracking issues and the resulting increased cost of maintenance, for which self-healing materials are regarded as an ideal solution due to their unique and prominent properties, such as spontaneous anticorrosion or recovery. They are usually divided into four major categories: intrinsic self-healing materials, capsule-based self-healing materials, bacterial-based self-healing materials, and vascular self-healing materials. Researchers and practitioners have shown that self-healing materials can extend the lifetime and reduce the maintenance cost of constructions. However, in practice, there is a wide range of debated or even conflicting properties of self-healing materials worth digging into.

This Special Issue on “Anticorrosion and Recovery Properties of Self-Healing Materials” aims to compile and discuss state-of-the-art research on self-healing materials focusing on their properties of corrosion resistance and restoration. Its main scope covers but is not limited to the following topics:

• Preparation of novel self-healing materials;
• Optimization of preparation approaches of self-healing materials;
• Evaluation of anticorrosion properties of self-healing materials;
• Evaluation of recovery properties of self-healing materials;
• Self-healing mechanisms;
• Application of self-healing materials in a special engineering environment.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit your original research articles or review articles to this Special Issue. Both experimental and theoretical works are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Zijian Song
Dr. Chuansheng Xiong
Guest Editors

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