Healing substrates with mobile, particle-filled microcapsules: Designing a 'repair and go' system

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 349-357

  Verberg, Rolf ^a   Dale, Alex T ^a   Kumar, Prashant ^a   Alexeev, Alexander ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; Microcapsules; Nanoparticles; Substrate healing

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; HEALING; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATERIAL COATING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROCAPSULE; MICROENCAPSULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION;

EID: 34047097871     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0165     Document Type: Article

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