Self-healing of fatigue crack in epoxy materials with epoxy/mercaptan system

Express Polymer Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-59

  Yuan, Y C ^a,b   Rong, M Z ^a   Zhang, M Q ^a   Yang, G C ^a   Zhao, J Q ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Epoxy; Fracture and fatigue; Self healing; Smart polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650259589     PISSN: 1788618X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3144/expresspolymlett.2011.6     Document Type: Article

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