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Rational Design of Self-Healing Hydrogel with High Mechanical Strength and Self-Healing Efficiency: A Short Review [PDF]

open access: yesGels
Self-healing hydrogels, a novel class of “smart” hydrogels, possess the ability to autonomously restore their network structure and mechanical properties following damage through the reconnection of a fractured three-dimensional network via reversible ...
Xiaogang Yu   +3 more
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Self‐Healing Hydrogels: Mechanisms and Biomedical Applications [PDF]

open access: yesMedComm
Hydrogels have emerged as dependable candidates for tissue repair because of their exceptional biocompatibility and tunable mechanical properties. However, conventional hydrogels are vulnerable to damage owing to mechanical stress and environmental ...
Lingling Xue   +7 more
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Corrosion Barrier Coatings: Progress and Perspectives of the Chemical Route

open access: yesCorrosion and Materials Degradation, 2022
Improved corrosion barrier coatings (CBCs) to protect metals will allow future metal structures to operate for extended periods, ensuring improved safety by reducing environmental pollution and maintenance costs.
George Kordas
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Nanocontainers for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications: A Mini-Review

open access: yesNanomanufacturing, 2023
Countries that do not have oil and natural gas but are forced to reduce pollution due to combustion have stimulated and developed new technologies for absorption, storage, and energy creation based on nanotechnology.
George Kordas
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Self-Healing Cement: A Review

open access: yesNanomanufacturing, 2023
The self-healing of cementitious materials can be achieved by precipitation of calcium carbonate through the enzymatic hydrolysis of urea. When a crack appears in cement, the damage can be repaired by allowing bacteria to encounter the water seeping ...
George Kordas
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All-Purpose Nano- and Microcontainers: A Review of the New Engineering Possibilities

open access: yesEng, 2022
Recently, a subcategory of nanotechnology—nano-, and microcontainers—has developed rapidly, with unexpected results. By nano- and microcontainers, we mean hollow spherical structures whose shells can be organic or inorganic.
George Kordas
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Self-Healing Polymers

open access: yesPolymers, 2022
Self-healing polymers are synthetic or artificially-created substances that have the built-in ability to automatically repair damages to themselves without any external diagnosis of the problem or human intervention [...]
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Early Warning on Mass Imbalance and Clean-in-Place Strategy for Rotor of Rotating Packed Bed

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Rotating packed bed is a new high-gravity gas-liquid mass-transfer equipment. The gas-liquid phase chemically reacts to the wire mesh packing of the rotor, and solid products easily adhere to the wire mesh packing, resulting in rotor vibration caused by ...
Zhenghui Zhang   +3 more
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Charge‐Selectively Permeable Self‐Healing Microcapsules

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, 2023
Microcapsules possessing a selective permeability are well‐suited vessels for conducting cell studies or chemical reactions that require selective exchanges of reagents over a prolonged time.
Chuen‐Ru Li   +2 more
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Self‐healing biomaterials [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 2010
AbstractThe goal of this review is to introduce the biomaterials community to the emerging field of self‐healing materials, and also to suggest how one could utilize and modify self‐healing approaches to develop new classes of biomaterials. A brief discussion of thein vivomechanical loading and resultant failures experienced by biomedical implants is ...
Alice B W, Brochu   +2 more
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