Self Healing Materials

Download or read book Self Healing Materials written by Sybrand van der Zwaag and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first published in this new sub-field of materials science, presents a coherent picture of the design principles and resulting properties of self-healing materials over all material classes, and offsets them to the current design principles for structural materials with improved mechanical properties. The book is not only a valuable asset for professional materials scientists but it is also suitable as a text book for courses at MSc level.