The International Conference on Self-Healing Materials 2009, scheduled for June 28 to July 1, 2009, in Chicago, Ill., has issued a call for abstracts and registration for next year's event.
Topics of the conference include:
--Self-Healing polymers, metals, ceramics and composites
--Microencapsulated systems
--Microvascular systems
--Bio-inspired materials and biological systems
--Self-Healing coatings and paints
--Self-Healing materials for infrastructure applications
--Damage evolution, modeling and characterization
--Self-Healing Cementitious Materials
--Self-Healing Supramolecular Polymers
--Mechanochemically Active Polymers
--Thermally Activated/Thermoplastic Self-Healing
--Self-Healing Fibre-Reinforced Composite Materials
--Self-Healing Metallic Materials
--Self-Healing with Internal Liquid Healing Agents
--Numerical Analysis Tools for Self-Healing
--Experimental Techniques for Assessment of Self-Healing Concepts
For abstract, registration, lodging and other conference information, visit
conferences.beckman.uiuc.edu/ICSHM2009/.