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Surface Healing: A Case Study

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In this chapter we discuss a specific type of self-healing – surface healing – in living nature (leaves of hydrophobic and hydrophilic plants) and in artificial surfaces.

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Nosonovsky, M., Rohatgi, P.K. (2011). Surface Healing: A Case Study. In: Biomimetics in Materials Science. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 152. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0926-7_4

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