A promising strategy for making such flexible conductors is to use a self-healing polymer as a flexible base and incorporate ...

A new flexible, self-healing polymer with liquid metal droplets can replace circuit boards, allowing easy recycling and reuse ...

Researchers at DTU have developed a new kind of electronic material that behaves almost exactly like human skin. The substance could be useful in soft robotics, medicine, and health care. Subscribe to ...

When a regular material is torn or ruptured, it stays that way unless we tend to it with our hands or a machine to repair the damage. But a new class of materials is emerging that needs no such ...

A recent study in Nature Communications explores a novel approach to self-healing in polymer glasses—using controlled oscillatory movements to boost molecular mobility and repair cracks. This ...

Researchers have investigated some creatures in the animal kingdom for their abilities to replicate body parts and heal with the hope of bringing that ability to medicine to help humans. Examples ...

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 ...

What if we could invent materials that can repair themselves when damaged? Polymer molecules in various states – solid, melt, solution – are susceptible to covalent bond changes in response to ...

Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for developing internal electrical shorts that can ignite a battery's liquid electrolytes, leading to explosions and fires. Engineers have developed a solid polymer ...