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Self-repairing plastics could lead to a scratch-free world

March 12th, 2009 link to (permalink)

Plastic has be given Wolverine-like self-healing capabilities thanks to the work of Biswajit Ghost and Marek Urban, material scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi. The scientists have created a new polymer that can repair itself when scratched using UV light from the sun.

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