How to Use self-healing in a Sentence

self-healing

adjective
  • In one test, the researchers equipped a robotic leg with the self-healing bolt and dropped it to the ground.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2019
  • For Byrdsong, caring for her plants became a form of self-healing.
    — La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The network becomes self-healing.
    — Douglas Murray, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The self-healing process could be sped up to just 4 hours when the sensor was placed in an oven at 60 °C.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2025
  • How well does the self-healing work to improve durability over long periods of time?
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The secret behind this self-healing is a phenomenon known as cold welding.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023
  • To counter this, researchers are now looking at developing self-healing concrete, which can heal its cracks on its own.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Second, what does the self-healing mix do under actual structural loading?
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The potential for self-healing concrete to lead to roads that repair their own cracks, bridges that get stronger over time, is significant.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • When this damage affects a critical part of an airplane, crews can use on-demand self-healing to restore its function.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The scientists now want to see if this self-healing can happen in air instead of vacuum, and in alloys such as steel, Boyce says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023
  • Cats also purr when they’re injured or stressed, not just content, which has led researchers to speculate purring may be a self-healing mechanism.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
  • Its three mesh points blanket homes up to 4,500 square feet with smart self-healing signal, keeping every room covered.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That detail has led researchers to wonder whether the purr is partly a self-healing mechanism, a body soothing itself from the inside out.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 29 May 2026
  • Unlike other self-healing materials, this one does not require an external force to trigger the self-healing process.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Nov. 2016
  • However, the self-healing section panel is performing as required.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Periodic audits, dashboards on what was healed and why, and clear thresholds for when self-healing should stop and escalate are non-negotiable.
    — Asad Khan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The ratio of boron nitride nanosheets used in the composite determines the amount of heat or additional pressure that is needed to trigger the self-healing process.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2016
  • Typically, self-healing has been observed in soft materials, including gels or polymers.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The crystal material’s self-healing capability is thanks to its unique molecular structure, the scientists said in their statement.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Shraya’s work enters the conversation through a different framework, instead, centering self-healing as the lens to reckon with her own fraught relationship to men and manhood.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The self-healing material can fix tears in 50 milliseconds; other self-healing materials can take minutes (and sometimes days) to repair themselves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Nov. 2016
  • This would shift infrastructure from reactive to self-healing, creating a trillion-dollar market by redefining how societies operate, adapt, and survive.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The fallacy of screen time holds that measuring a ubiquitous phenomenon provides information that allows for control of that phenomenon—that keeping records of a chronic state will give rise to certain habits of self-healing.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Physical exercise may also improve blood circulation, expedite nutrient transport, and aid waste elimination to collectively maintain an active self-healing system.
    — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 29 May 2026
  • This self-healing capability reduces system failures by up to 70% while eliminating the manual intervention cycles that plague traditional automation.
    — Uli Erxleben, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • This closes the execution gap, enabling resilient, self-healing, auto-adapting workflows that optimize performance, reduce downtime and maintain SLA-critical operations.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • At Professor Jian Ping Gong’s lab at Hokkaido University, researchers have developed hydrogels with unique properties like self-strengthening and self-healing by modifying their polymer networks.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Duke Energy Florida reported that investments in self-healing technologies helped avoid 280,000 extended power outages and more than 300,000 hours of outages for customers in 2025.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Investments in self-healing technologies helped Duke Energy Florida avoid 280,000 extended power outages and more than 300,000 hours of outages for customers in 2025.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026

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