High-performance self-healing multifunctional composite material will help prevent catastrophic failure of structural components of military aircraft, rotorcraft, warships, vehicles, missile, rocket motor case, radomes, support structures, UAVs, buildings, and other construction. Our proposed self-healing multifunctional smart composites can be extended to structural composites of other commercial products including aircrafts, rotorcrafts, wind energy, constructions, building, and vehicles, VIP vehicles, ship, armor, and liquefied gas transport. The proposed non-catalytic nanocomposite self-healing composite is expected to demonstrate enhanced autonomous durability and extended lifetime of structural composite materials of aeronautic and aerospace vehicles. This multifunctional smart composite will be applied to many aerospace structures, including aircraft, launch vehicles, space vehicles, permanent structures placed on the moon or Mars, and robotic devices that patrol these structures for SHM, and satellites. Also, their applications may extend to other structural composite materials of space, aerospace, and propellant tanks which require high durability, extending lifetime, and reducing maintenance cost.
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