With This Self-Healing Rubber, Your Flat Tire Can Fix Itself
Researchers in Germany recently discovered a way to manufacture rubber that can “heal” after being cut or pierced. In this incredible video, you can see the rubber growing back together.
This Self-Healing Soap Bubble is the Best Thing You'll See All Day
In the epic battle of soap bubble versus drop of water, the surprising winner is the bubble. This is because of the bubble's ability to "self-heal" as the drop first splashes down through it, and then back up through it again. We'll give you some of the physics behind why the bubble can heal itself.
This plastic heals itself through a process that's eerily reminiscent of blood clotting. It contains a network of capillaries that deliver healing chemicals to damaged areas. So in the future, the cracked screen of your phone could mend itself.
How an Odd Property of Acid Created Self-Healing Iron
An odd quirk of iron led, eventually, to the first self-healing materials. An iron bar, dipped in strong acid, was just fine. Dipped in weak acid, it was eaten away to nothing. Here's why a diluted acid will succeed when a strong acid fails.
Two Technologies that Los Angeles Needs for the Coming Rise in Quakes
In the wake of yesterday's 4.4 earthquake in the Los Angeles area, some seismologists are suggesting that this could be the first of many quakes in the region. As the city looks to a shaky future, there are two cutting-edge technologies that might keep their buildings, bridges and transit systems from crumbling.
This New Polymer Regenerates Large Parts of Itself, Like Lizards Do
Call it whatever you want—the Wolverine plastic, the Terminator material, the Doctor Who ingredient—but this new regenerating polymer is amazing.
An incredible new polymer that heals itself to 97% efficiency
The Spanish scientists who developed it are calling it the 'Terminator' Polymer — and for good reason. Like the T-1000 blown to bits, it can spontaneously and independently repair itself without any outside intervention.
New bleeding, healing plastic will be used on airplanes, not androids
Earlier this week, scientists announced the development of an entirely new genre of plastic that heals itself when it's scratched or cut, and bleeds like human skin — but researchers say you're more likely to find these next-gen materials wrapped around a car bumper than you are a freshly minted 800 Series.
New form of rubber can be repaired with light
Scientists have discovered a new polymer that could be repaired with nothing more than UV light. The material is a metallosupramolecular polymer, a rubbery substance with bits of metal throughout. It's made of molecular chains which naturally latch together to form bigger ones, in a stable lattice. When damaged, this…
Self-healing Polymer Mimics Human Skin Behaviour
There is a new material that can heal itself in case of a scratch. It uses a concentrated polymeric ink, which flows out of a vascular system that mimics our own skin. The healing stops after seven cycles but "this limitation might be overcome by implementing a new microvascular design based on dual networks."
