Self-Healing Nanotextured Vascular Engineering Materials

Preface

1. Introduction

1.1.                Nature-inspired Biomimetic Self-healing for Self-sustained Mechanical

       Properties

1.2. Self-healing: Extension to Anti-corrosion Protection

1.3. Capsule-based Self-healing Approach to Self-healing

1.4. Tube and Channel Networks

1.5. Carbon Nanotubes, Sacrificial Materials and Shape-memory Polymers

1.6. References

Part I. Materials and Fundamental Physico-Chemical  Phenomena

2. Healing Materials/Agents Used for Mechanical Recovery in Nano-textured Systems

        2.1. Dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) and Grubbs' Catalyst

        2.2. Poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS)

        2.3. Bisphenol-A-based Epoxy

        2.4. References

3. Macroscopic Observations of Physico-chemical Aspects of Self-healing Phenomena

              Surfaces

       3.2. Spreading on Tilted Surfaces

       3.3. Filling Crack Tips

       3.4. Stitching Cracks and the Corresponding Mechanical Properties

       3.5. References

Part II. Fabrication Methods

4. Fabrication of Vascular Nanofiber Network with Encapsulated Self-   

       healing Agents for Mechanical Recovery

        4.1. Electrospinning

        4.2. Co-electrospinning

        4.3. Emulsion Spinning

        4.4. Solution Blowing

        4.5. Coaxial Solution Blowing

        4.6. Emulsion Blowing

 4.7. Hollow Fibers

 4.8. Other Approaches

 4.9. Three-dimensional Self-healing Materials

 4.10. References

5. Characterization of Self-healing Phenomena on Micro- and Nano-scale

       Level

       5.1. Visualization

       5.2. Spectroscopic Characterization

       5.3. Thermal Analysis

       5.4. References

              Part III. Mechanical Behavior of Self-Healing Nano-Textured

      Materials

6. Cracks, Delamination, Adhesion and Cohesion

       6.1. Cracks in Elastic Media

       6.2. Cracks in Viscoelastic Media

       6.3. Fatigue Cracks

       6.4. Critical Catastrophic Crack and Subcritical Crack Propagation

       6.4. Delamination Cracks

       6.5. Adhesion/Cohesion Energy: Stiff Materials

       6.6. Adhesion/Cohesion Energy: Soft Materials

       6.7. Effect of Non-self-healing Nanofibers on Delamination Cracks

       6.8. References

7. Self-healing Evaluation

        7.1. Tensile Tests: Stiffness Recovery in Nano-textured Vascular Self-healing

                Materials

               Mats

        7.3. Plane Strip: Recovery of Stiffness

7.4. Bending Test: Recovery of Stiffness

7.5. Impact Test

7.6. Blister Test: Recovery of Adhesion/Cohesion with Self-healing Nano-    

               textured Materials

        7.7. Self-healing of Three-dimensional Materials: Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic

               Self-healing

        7.8. References

Part IV. Self-Healing Anti-Corrosion Nano-Textured Materials

8. Capsule-based Self-healing Approaches for Corrosion Protection

8.1. Electrochemical Fundamentals of Corrosion Cracking

8.2. Extrinsic Self-healing Technique

       8.3. Healing Agent-embedded Capsule-based Self-healing

       8.4. Modified Healing Agents and Microcapsules

       8.5. Corrosion Inhibitor-embedded Capsule-based Self-healing

       8.6. References

9. Fiber-based Self-healing Approaches for Corrosion Protection

9.1. Micrometer-scale Hollow Fiber-based Self-healing

9.2. Hollow Tubes for Self-healing

9.3. Anti-corrosion Composites Based on Hollow Tubes

9.4. Nanometer-scale Hollow Fiber-based Self-healing

9.5. Anti-corrosion Composites Based on Core-shell Nanofiber Networks

9.6. References

10. Future Perspectives