Electrically conductive self-healing materials: preparation, properties, and applications

Abstract Self-healing materials have attracted the attention of many researchers over the last decades in order to provide satisfactory material properties and outstanding product durability. Self-healing has great potential to extend the service life of a material, and this capability has been regarded as an important strategy when designing a sustainable infrastructure. Preparing ultrahigh stretchable, tough, and self-healing materials is the key component for the artificial intelligence apparatus which can produce high mechanical properties and prolong the service life. This chapter presents a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art investigations concerning preparation, characterization, and enhancement of various electrically conductive self-healing materials. From the literature, it was found that the samples had an enhanced self-healing capability because of the electrical and thermal self-healing mechanisms.