Autonomous self-healing structural composites with bio-inspired design

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  D'Elia, Eleonora ^a   Eslava, Salvador ^b   Miranda, Miriam ^a   Georgiou, Theoni K ^a   Saiz, Eduardo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84966271575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25059     Document Type: Article

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