Self-Healing materials in the spotlight

self-healing concrete

Prof. Nele De Belie from Labo Magnel at Ghent University talks about the new developments in self-healing concrete on the VTM news on April 13th, 2015 (in Dutch):

http://nieuws.vtm.be/moet-je-zien/136925-experiment-beton-herstelt-barst...

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Also, on BBC Horizons, an episode is dedicated to self-healing concrete! You can watch this online here: http://www.bbc.com/specialfeatures/horizonsbusiness/seriesfive/reinforci...

self-healing polymers

Breaking your robot is no longer a big deal with these self-healing actuators, including materials developed at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel : http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/selfhealin....

Additional information on the work at Ghent University regarding self-healing polymers: see a previous news item on autonomous self-healing materials.

This research has partly been realised in the framework of the SIM program SHE, "Self-Healing Engineering Materials".