14Self‐replenishing and Self‐healing Coatings
This chapter deals with aspects of self‐healing and surface self‐replenishing of polymer coatings. After discussing the scope and limitations of these concepts, an overview of present approaches and technologies is given. Extrinsic and intrinsic mechanisms are discussed as well as differences between reversible and irreversible networks. The example of currently applied industrial scratch‐healing automotive coatings is elaborated. An overview of self‐replenishing low surface energy coatings based on a dual experimental–simulation approach is given as well as an overview for other surface effects. Possible future scenarios are discussed.
14.1 Self‐healing and Self‐replenishing self-replenishing!functionalities"?>: ...
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