Polymeric Self-Healing Materials II

Dear Colleagues,

A self-healing material has the ability to restore lost or degraded performance using resources that are inherently available in the material itself. Ideally, this process should be fast and should be able to occur for an infinite number of cycles without any external stimuli. Unfortunately, persistent irreversible mechanisms, low chemical stability, and weak mechanical performance mean that the present systems are far from achieving these capabilities.

Polymers are one of the most broadly used materials in daily life. They have several advantages, such as inexpensive cost, good processability, and low density. The incorporation of self-healing mechanisms in polymeric materials promises to further expand their use by extending the lifetime of structural and functional polymer-based systems. This Special Issue aims to represent the state of the art in this field and provide systematic information on self-healing mechanisms, characterization techniques, and structure–property relationships. We hope to provide the community with new ideas and perspectives, as we are firmly convinced that these bioinspired materials can be applied in most modern engineering applications.

Dr. Marialuigia Raimondo
Dr. Andrea Sorrentino
Guest Editors

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