Insights of technologies for self-healing organic coatings

Nowadays self-healing coating technologies has reported rapid growth and provides stability to increase lifetime, reduce replacement cost, advance safety, and improves aesthetic value of products. The speedy growing research on self-healing of polymer products can be realized by enormous publications appeared in recent days in terms of patents, research papers, reviews, and books or book chapters. Most of the publications dealing with self-healing technologies are specialized and focused on specific topics such as capsule-based, stimuli–responsive polymeric materials, and supramolecular forces, while minimum attention has been pair on explaining A–Z of self-healing for organic coatings especially for newcomers, industry persons or manufacturers who wish to design or use self-healing coatings. Except intellectual documents, rests of others are having academic interest in designing and development of self-healing systems. Considering the need, this chapter has written for getting introduction, importance, and ways of self-healing to the interested one.