Self Healing Materials

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rubber is a natural companion to concrete that can help extent its longevity, but until…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are no spare parts in the deep universe to repair broken robots with, but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day batteries will go away as new materials help us harness energy in more…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We often think of materials as being static, but today “life” is being embedded into…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While this is one example of how self-healing materials will be useful there are millions…

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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We often think of materials as static things, but what if they were alive?  …