Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Houston have achieved sustained self-healing of a composite material. The findings promise to extend the lifetime of aircraft and ...

A team of researchers at Cukurova University, a research university in Adana, Turkey, announce several ongoing patents that are said to provide a simple, more cost-effective way to create a channel or ...

In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old trick for improving the durability ...

A recent study in Nature Communications explores a novel approach to self-healing in polymer glasses—using controlled oscillatory movements to boost molecular mobility and repair cracks. This ...

The European Space Agency is developing a spacecraft structure that can detect its own damage and repair itself in orbit, a ...