found: Work cat.: Swaag, S. van der. Self healing materials : an alternative approach to 20 centuries of materials science, c2007.
found: Wikipedia WWW site, 24 May 2010(A self healing material is a material which has the built-in ability to partially repair damage occurring during its service life time)
found: SenterNovem-IOP WWW site, 24 May 2010(Self healing materials are a recently identified expansion of already existing structural materials. These materials possess the ability to detect and repair defects)
found: 1st International Conference on Self Healing Materials, 18-20, April 2007, Noordwijk, The Netherlands WWW site, 24 May 2010(Although the phenomenon of self healing has been recognized in materials thoughout history, especially with regards to biological systems, it was only recently that the property of self healing was seriously considered as a desirable function for man-made materials)
