Various scenarios of end-of-life management of wind turbine blades are reviewed.“Reactive”
strategies, designed to deal with already available, ageing turbines, installed in the 2000s …

The perspective of using recyclable and biobased materials in the vitrimeric concept is
attractive, in view of the regulatory guidelines and pressing need to reduce CO 2-emissions …

This article reviews some of the intrinsic self-healing epoxy materials that have been
investigated throughout the course of the last twenty years. Emphasis is placed on those …

To achieve sustainable development goals, approaches towards the preparation of
recyclable and healable polymeric materials is highly attractive. Self-healing polymers and …

This paper presents a first successful attempt to obtain a conductivity mapping at nanoscale
level of a new multifunctional fire retardant graphene/polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane …

Developing mechanically strong and efficient self-healing rubbers is booming and shows
great potential in a wide range of applications. Herein, by introducing pyridine ligands onto …

The development of embedded sensors based on a structural thermosetting epoxy resin
reinforced with 0.3 wt% of multi-walled (MW) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for real-time …

Reprocessability and reparability are possible with thermoplastics but are rarely
encountered with thermosets, which are used much more frequently in many applications …

Adhesive durability and joint reliability, strictly related to the bonding agents, are key
parameters still under evaluation in civil as well as in other engineering fields. Moisture …

Self-healing polymer materials (SHPM) have aroused great interests in recent years. Ideal
SHPM should have not only simple operations, but also high elongations at break, tensile …