COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SELF-HEALING MATERIALS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
NNE 5034 SELF-HEALING MATERIALS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
M.Sc. Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering

Course Objective

During the last few years, interesting results of self-healing polymers and self-healing polymer composites have been reported. The benefit that self-healing brings to the materials is no longer limited to mechanical performance, but expanded into physicochemical, electronic and even data storage properties. This lecture serves only as an introduction and a current description of the practice of the self-healing materials and their usages.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to be able to understand the meaning and importance of self-healing
2   to be able to understand the self-healing polymers and polymer composites and their economical importance in industry
3   to be able to know modelling, theorethical approach, the synthesis and characterization of self-healing materials
5   to be able to know the applications and engineering in self-healing
6   to be able to understand the production of novel self-healing materials in industrial scale

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Self-Healing 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Adhesive Bonding for Healing Thermosetting Materials 1.1.2 Fusion Bonding for Healing Thermoplastic Materials 1.1.3 Bioinspired Self-Healing
2 2.1 Intrinsic Self-Healing 2.2.1 Self-Healing Based on Physical and Chemical Interactions 2.3 Extrinsic Self-Healing
3 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Addition Polymerization 3.1 Design and Selection of Healing System 3.2 Microencapsulation of Mercaptan and Epoxy by in situ Polymerization 3.3 Characterization of Self-Healing Functionality
4 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Cationic Polymerization 4.1 Microencapsulation of Epoxy by UV Irradiation-Induced Interfacial Copolymerization 4.2 Encapsulation of Boron-Containing Curing Agent 4.3 Characterization of Self-Healing Functionality
5 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Anionic Polymerization 5.1 Preparation of Epoxy-Loaded Microcapsules and Latent Hardener 5.2 Self-Healing Epoxy Materials with Embedded Epoxy-Loaded Microcapsules and Latent Hardener
6 5.3 Self-Healing Epoxy/Woven Glass Fabric Composites with Embedded Epoxy-Loaded Microcapsules and Latent Hardener: Healing of Interlaminar Failure 5.4 Durability of Healing Ability 5.5 Self-Healing Epoxy/Woven Glass Fabric Composites with Embedded Epoxy-Loaded Microcapsules and Latent Hardener: Healing of Impact Damage
7 6 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Miscellaneous Reactions 6.1 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Nucleophilic Addition and Ring-Opening Reactions 6.2 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Living Polymerization 6.3 Extrinsic Self-Healing via Free Radical Polymerization
8 Midterm
9 7 Intrinsic Self-Healing via Diels-Alder Reaction 7.1 Molecular Design and Synthesis 7.2 Blends of DGFA and FGE
10 8 Applications 8.1 Coatings and Films 8.2 Elastomers
11 8.3 Smart Composites 8.4 Tires 8.5 Concluding Remarks
12 Presentations (Homework) I
13 Presentations (Homework) II
14 Evaluation of the presentations and discussions of the homeworks

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Ming Qiu Zhang, Min Zhi Rong, Self-Healing Polymers and Polymer Composites, First Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2011.
2. Blaiszik, B.J., Kramer , S.L.B., Olugebefola, S.C., Moore, J.S., Sottos, N.R., and White, S.R. Self-healing polymers and composites, Annual Review of Materials Research 40, 179 211 (2010) .
3. Swapan Kumar Ghosh (Editor). Self-healing Materials, Wiley-VCH, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Fourteen, three-hour lectures backed up with one midterm examination and one workshop and interactive presentations. All the didactic material is preliminary available to the student both in paper and electronic form. The books used to prepare the lectures are available at the Library of the University. Further data and/or information may be obtained consulting the Library of the University also using the new wireless network.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture, Discussion, Question & Answer, Field Trip, Team/Group Work, Demonstration, Experiment, Drill - Practise, Case Study, Brain Storming

Assessment Criteria

Midterm(%30)+ Homework(%20)+Presentation(%10)+Final exam(%40)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students will attend 14 tutorials and 1 workshop on the material covered in this course. Attendance is compulsory at both till %70, but the rules for the attendence up to the students and can be obtained from the web site of Graduate School of Sciences at http://www.fbe.deu.edu.tr/.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kadir Yurdakoç
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Phone: (232) 3018695
E-mail: k.yurdakoc@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesdays 5.,6.th hours.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Tutorials 4 2 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 10 4 40
Reading 2 5 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 201

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.123
LO.223
LO.323
LO.423
LO.523