Title:	Biomimetics in Materials Science
Authors:	Nosonovsky, Michael
Keywords:	Biomimetics
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Spriger
Description:	This book describes this new and expanding area of materials that have the ability for self-organization, including self-healing, self-lubricating, and self-cleaning properties. Self-healing is the ability of a material to repair damage, such as a crack or void. Most living organisms can repair minor or moderate damage in their tissues. This ability is a result of a complex hierarchical organization of biological systems. A living tissue has many mechanisms sometimes acting simultaneously and complementing each other, which implement partial or complete self-repair, and this can be a complicated process with many stages. Most artificial or engineered materials do not have the ability for self-healing and tend to deteriorate irreversibly with time due to wear, fatigue, creep, fracture, corrosion, erosion, and other modes. Degradation and wear limit the lifespan of devices, and can cause a catastrophic failure leading to economic loss and even to the loss of human lives. Therefore, deterioration is a significant problem in many areas of engineering. For this reason, creating selfhealing artificial materials has always been a dream of engineers.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/40817
ISBN:	978-1-4614-0926-7
Appears in Collections:	Building Construction

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