The building industry is latching onto advances made by other industries like aviation to create innovations such as self-healing and self-cleaning materials.
It's currently being evaluated for emerging technologies such as flexible structural health monitoring systems, self-healing materials, and radiation-protective materials.
But this problem could be overcome by making a coating with self-healing properties.
The self-forming, self-healing wireless network that Rifleman generates maintains its integrity even when soldiers are isolated and under fire.
Small businesses take economic headwinds in stride because they know the marketplace is self-healing with the passage of time.
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Scientists have developed a self-healing protective coating for concrete that could greatly reduce the need to regularly rebuild roads.
It is self-configuring, meaning it constantly reconfigures itself on the fly, and increasingly, it is also self-organizing, self-architecting, and self-healing.
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The self-healing technologies did not restore the material to its pristine state -- "There is some residual damage, " he said.
The result could be better internet access for customers and, just possibly, a step towards the intelligent, self-healing power grid of tomorrow.
In the Netherlands, scientists have developed a self-healing nano coating that repairs itself when it's damaged and could keep cars permanently clean.
We're no strangers to the futuristic catch-all idea of ' self-healing' -- it's one of the basic tent poles of many conceptions of tomorrow.
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Government agencies ranging from the Department of Defense to local firehouses are interested in mesh networking because it provides a very reliable, self-healing system.
While the microcapsule coatings will be the first self-healing product to make it to market, scientists are also working on developing more complex models.
Such self-healing materials mimic living organisms that can repair their tissues.
The high standards of product testing required for the aerospace industry meant that the self-healing composites were not likely to be found in airplane construction any time soon.
Jini networks are self-healing, they never establish a permanent connection.
In 2008 MIT chemist Daniel Nocera concocted a very simple, very cheap, robust, self-healing and non-toxic catalyst made from cobalt and phosphate that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Trouble is, the feds interfere with these self-healing trends.
Co-author Dr Benjamin Blaiszik, now at Argonne National Laboratory, explained that the self-healing circuitry could find uses in a military setting where it would be exposed to extreme stresses or in long-term space applications.
We have to produce the self-healing agent in huge quantities and we are starting to do outdoor tests, looking at different constructions, different types of concrete to see if this concept really works in practice.
If it does, soldiers, sailors and airmen in remote or isolated locations will, for the first time in military history, have access to secure, internet-like communications that can carry voice, data, and video on a self-healing net.
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Its self-healing architecture, for example, and the ability to plug in and remove processors while the machine is running, would have obvious uses in e-commerce, where servers must be kept online around the clock and the amount of processing power needed may vary seasonally.
It is healing in itself to write down how you are really doing, because the key to psychological healing is self-awareness.
"When you find the right diagnosis, not only is there appropriate treatment, but it can make a dramatic improvement in terms of healing their self esteem, " Dr. Schildkrout said.
But, Lee's candor in her healing process will likely resonate with self-help fans.
Believers seeking healing regularly visit Mama Safi, a self-proclaimed "good witch, " who gained her powers after being visited by spirits, she says.
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According to Belinda Budge, publishing director of Thorsons, Britain's biggest self-help publisher and part of Harper Collins, sales of books about yoga and reiki, an Oriental healing system, have exploded in the past 18 months.
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