Self-healing coatings are advanced materials that can repair damage, such as scratches and cracks on their own. Researchers have developed an efficient method for preparing self-healing films ...

One increasingly popular method is self-assembly. This process involves the spontaneous organization of individual components into a larger, functional structure without the need for external control ...

Applying a magnetic field to the viruses during self-assembly reduces the amount of twisting between neighboring viruses, ...

Self-assembly is the process by which an organized structure spontaneously forms from individual components, as a result of specific, local interactions among the components. When the constitutive ...

Researchers at Waseda University developed a more efficient method to create self-healing films using organosiloxane and ...

and grafted PDMS layers using a self-assembly process. “Replacing traditional materials with our self-healing material, which is less susceptible to deterioration and has high hardness ...

Applying a magnetic field to the viruses during self-assembly reduces the amount of twisting between neighboring viruses, which allows the disk to grow larger. Varying the magnetic field intensity ...

Polysiloxane materials, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based elastomers, exhibit a self-healing capability by the ...