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Self-healing materials

Get ready for repair-and-go

Nature Nanotechnology volume 5, pages 247–248 (2010)Cite this article

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Computer simulations have shown that hydrophobic nanoparticles encapsulated in a deformable shell can repair surfaces in a manner that is similar to the way white blood cells work in the body.

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Figure 1: The 'repair-and-go' approach to self-healing systems.

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  1. Scott R. White and Philippe H. Geubelle are in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. swhite@illinois.edu,

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White, S., Geubelle, P. Get ready for repair-and-go. Nature Nanotech 5, 247–248 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.66

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