Scientists in Spain have reported the first self-healing polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself without any intervention. The new material could be used to improve the security ...

What if we could invent materials that can repair themselves when damaged? Polymer molecules in various states – solid, melt, solution – are susceptible to covalent bond changes in response to ...

The next generation of polymeric materials will need features typically associated with biological systems, such as programmable, self-healing, and self-regenerating properties. While engineering ...

Scientists have presented a new self-healing material that ... they claim that the rubber-like conductive material, made from a stretchable polymer and an ionic salt, can stretch up to 50 times ...

Research in the world of materials science is often a lot slower and more sober than certain headlines would have you believe. Take for example the self-healing polymer, a string of grouped ...

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Apart from the inevitable long timeline it will take to see the material in production ... dynamically cross-linked blend of polymer semiconductor and self-healing elastomer – have created ...

This research has significant implications for developing sustainable energy technologies. The bioinspired polymer networks ...