Scratched contact lenses often mean an expensive replacement, even if the damage is minor.

Ancient Roman harbors, breakwaters, and aqueducts have survived roughly two thousand years of saltwater, earthquakes, and neglect. Modern Portland-cement concrete, by contrast, often begins to crack ...

Self-healing materials have attracted attention due to their ability to regain their structure and function after damage. In recent years, significant progress has been made in achieving various ...

Self-healing polymer materials, owing to their inherent capacity for autonomous damage remediation, have emerged as indispensable constituents of modern intelligent material systems, such as wearable ...

As an innovative concept in materials science and engineering, the inspiration for self-healing materials comes from living organisms that have the innate ability to self-heal. Along this line, the ...

What are Self-Healing Materials? Self-healing materials are a class of advanced materials that have the ability to autonomously repair damage and restore their original properties without external ...

How have Rome's ancient aqueducts and architectural marvels such as the Pantheon, which features the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, endured the test of time? Researchers at the ...

A new type of plastic can rapidly heal itself under water, even in harsh conditions. It maintains its strength after self-healing, so it may be useful in emergencies at sea. Lili Chen at Tsinghua ...

Fig. (A) An artistic poster depicting the autonomous self-healing phenomenon found in nanoscale Ag. (B, C) Sequential high-resolution TEM images showing the autonomous self-healing processes of a ...