Advances in Self-Healing Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Self-healing materials with the ability to autonomously repair damages exhibit numerous applications in various areas, e.g., surface protection coatings, healthcare materials, and so forth, since they can extend their lifetime and reduce maintenance costs.

The present Special Issue aims to collect featured research and review articles on all aspects of self-healing materials, including preparation, characterization, processing, property, and application. Its main scope covers, but is not limited to, the following aspects:

• The design and synthesis of self-healing materials;
• The structure characterization of self-healing materials;
• Mechanisms of the self-healing capacity;
• The structure–property relationship;
• Modeling processing engineering of self-healing materials;
• Applications of self-healing materials;
• Service evaluation of self-healing materials；
• Recycling of self-healing materials.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Materials preparation;
• Multiscale structures;
• Structure regulation;
• Processing techniques and applications;
• Structure and properties
• Rubbers, plastics, and fibers;
• Coatings and thin films.

We kindly invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Shouke Yan
Prof. Dr. Xuming Xie
Guest Editors

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