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They pointed out that the healing process goes through five phases. Dynamic chemistry has been explored in some other polymers, but those. Microporous and superporous gels, microgelsnanogels, shapememory and selfhealing gels, and fullerene c60containing nanostructured smart polymersgels are also depicted in this article. Selfhealing polymer market is expected to grow at significant cagr from 2019 to 2023 as per mrfr analysis selfhealing polymers are artificially developed polymers with the ability to automatically repair by themselves without any external treatment or any human intervention.
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