Vehicle for Coating Life Extension Self-healing materials are a class of smart materials capable of repairing themselves when they are damaged, at an ambient temperature without any external intervention. Self-healing in materials is a biomi-metic concept modeled after the capability of biological systems to autonomically repair or regenerate after damage. Given the definition of self-healing technology and the biological systems that these technologies are modeled after, not all technologies commonly referred to as self-healing are truly self-healing. Materials healing technologies can broadly be classified as autonomic and nonautonomic. These classifications and representative examples are described below.
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