Self-healing plastic repairs itself in 10 seconds even under water
A new type of strong, flexible self-healing plastic can repair itself rapidly, even in salty or acidic water, which may be useful for divers or underwater pipes
By Leah Crane
A caller benignant of integrative tin rapidly heal itself nether water, adjacent successful harsh conditions. It maintains its spot aft self-healing, truthful it whitethorn beryllium utile successful emergencies astatine sea.
Lili Chen astatine Tsinghua University successful China and her colleagues developed this material, called Rapid Underwater Self-healing Stiff Elastomer (RUSSE) due to the fact that astir self-healing polymers don’t enactment precise good nether water. “Room somesthesia self-healing polymers mostly person a mediocre underwater stability, debased healing spot and a dilatory healing process,” says Chen.
RUSSE is made of tiny chunks of a benignant of brushed polymer utilized successful immoderate paints connected by nanometre-sized …
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