The self-healing technologies did not restore the material to its pristine state -- "There is some residual damage, " he said.
The high standards of product testing required for the aerospace industry meant that the self-healing composites were not likely to be found in airplane construction any time soon.
Co-author Dr Benjamin Blaiszik, now at Argonne National Laboratory, explained that the self-healing circuitry could find uses in a military setting where it would be exposed to extreme stresses or in long-term space applications.
We have to produce the self-healing agent in huge quantities and we are starting to do outdoor tests, looking at different constructions, different types of concrete to see if this concept really works in practice.
Small businesses take economic headwinds in stride because they know the marketplace is self-healing with the passage of time.
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While the microcapsule coatings will be the first self-healing product to make it to market, scientists are also working on developing more complex models.
It is healing in itself to write down how you are really doing, because the key to psychological healing is self-awareness.
We're no strangers to the futuristic catch-all idea of ' self-healing' -- it's one of the basic tent poles of many conceptions of tomorrow.
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The self-forming, self-healing wireless network that Rifleman generates maintains its integrity even when soldiers are isolated and under fire.
Trouble is, the feds interfere with these self-healing trends.
In the Netherlands, scientists have developed a self-healing nano coating that repairs itself when it's damaged and could keep cars permanently clean.
Its self-healing architecture, for example, and the ability to plug in and remove processors while the machine is running, would have obvious uses in e-commerce, where servers must be kept online around the clock and the amount of processing power needed may vary seasonally.
Scientists have developed a self-healing protective coating for concrete that could greatly reduce the need to regularly rebuild roads.
It is self-configuring, meaning it constantly reconfigures itself on the fly, and increasingly, it is also self-organizing, self-architecting, and self-healing.
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The building industry is latching onto advances made by other industries like aviation to create innovations such as self-healing and self-cleaning materials.
Government agencies ranging from the Department of Defense to local firehouses are interested in mesh networking because it provides a very reliable, self-healing system.
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