Recent Advances in Smart Self-healing Polymers and Composites

Dr. Guoqiang Li is the Major Morris S. & DeEtte A. Anderson Memorial LSU Alumni Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State University, USA. He is also holder of the John W. Rhea Jr. Professorship in Engineering at the same university. His research interests include: Composite Joints; Grid Stiffened Composite Structures; Infrastructure Composites; Low/High Velocity Impact of Composite Structures; Mechanics of Composite Materials; Particulate-Filled Composites; Repair and Rehabilitation of Composite Structures; and Smart Self-Healing Composites.

• 1 Overview of crack self-healing2 Modeling of self-healing smart composite materials3 Solid state healing of resins and composites4 Microcapsule-based self-healing materials5 Microvascular-based self-healing materials6 Reversible cross-linking polymer-based self-healing materials7 Supramolecular network-based self-healing polymer materials8 Self-healing coatings9 Self-sensing and self-healing in composites10 Rubber-like polymeric shape memory hybrids with repeatable heat-assisted self-healing and joule heating functions11 Shape memory polymer-based self-healing composites 12 Self-healing materials with embedded shape memory polymer fibers and wires