An international team has created a new electronic material that can heal its functions automatically even after breaking multiple times. A response to the issue of electronic materials struggling to ...

Biology can often be the ultimate design inspiration. Most recently, engineers at MIT were able to take a leaf out of nature’s playbook to design a material that’s self-healing and carbon-negative. It ...

A material that can be used in technologies such as solar power has been found to self-heal, a new study shows. The findings - from the University of York - raise the prospect that it may be possible ...

While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --An Army-funded project developed a self-healing material patterned after squid ring teeth protein. The biodegradable biosynthetic polymer could be used to repair ...

Scientists have developed a new model of how self-repairing materials function and show that materials with a certain number of easily breakable bonds can absorb more stress, a natural trick found in ...

Thermoplastic elastomers generally consist of phase-separated block copolymers in which higher glass transition temperature (T g) segments form physical crosslinks that control the entropy-elastic ...

We've seen numerous examples of self-healing polymers that allow materials to repair themselves after being damaged. One of the more common approaches involves the use of embedded microcapsules that ...