Self-healing materials and defense mechanisms

Abstract

In living nature, an organism uses healing and defense mechanisms to survive. Healing can occur through repair or regeneration of damaged tissue, noting that to regenerate is to repair 100% of the damage. The ability to heal is intrinsic to all multicellular organisms (Holliman 1995; Firestein et al. 2012; Cremaldi and Bhushan 2018). Living nature may use defense mechanisms for avoidance of predators. As an example, organisms change to blend in with their immediate surrounding.