Self healing materials : principles and technology The self healing phenomenon adapted from living things was for a long time an exciting topic of discussion on the potential improvements of human made products but for quite a while it became applicable reality useful in many manufactured products. Ironically the expectations from the healing of commercial products are higher than in the case of living things (for example skin healing leaves scars that would not be acceptable for self healed phone watch radio receiver etc.) The most up to date information presented in this book gives a full account of means ways and practical results to prevent discarding products because they were once damaged.