The self healing technology that comes from the concept of the self-healing power of the animals and plants could be used to fix things like aeroplanes by themselves on the fly. Also this technology could further be used to point out minuscule holes to the mechanics after landing. Imagine if this thing is put in effect then we are not far that this technique could be used along with aeroplanes to wind turbines and also to the spaceships of the future. As we will be having most of such technology with embedded circulatory systems and some kind of epoxy resin that can bleed into the holes and cracks and then it fluoresce under the ultraviolet light and show up some kind of mark when there is any kind of inspection.
I personally believe that such a technology could be add a lot to the fiber-reinforced polymers which are lightweight and plastic based composites. Recently such polymers have been used as a protective layer of skin and the growing advancement of the aircraft technology, spacecraft, wind turbines would take it to much advanced levels.
According to some of the aerospace engineers there are many possibilities of certain parts of the aircraft to get damaged and most of the time they are undetectable to the eye. Often times the users of composites have taken a very long time in order to detect such kind of damages and worry about the growing of the damage areas on the aircraft if left undetected. Also I think that the renewable energy industry will also benefit a lot from such self healing surfaces.
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