Smart insulating material with UV-triggered self-healing and aggregation-induced emission-based damage visualization via microcapsules
Ze Yin, Wenxu Tang, Ke Zhao, Binghao Chen, Jinggang Yang, Lei Sun +2 · Elsevier BV · 2026
A smart insulating material uses UV to trigger self-healing and employs microcapsules with aggregation-induced emission to visualize damage.
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Key findings
- UV-triggered self-healing is part of the insulating material concept.
- Damage visualization is based on aggregation-induced emission.
- Microcapsules are used to implement the damage visualization approach.
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No abstract content is provided, so performance metrics, experimental setup, healing efficiency, visualization sensitivity, and durability are not stated.
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- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Publication date
- January 1, 2026
- Research type
- Paper
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- https://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/
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