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Without a scratch: New American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网 video on self-healing plastics
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2012 鈥� A new American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网 (ACS) video explores materials that mimic the human skin鈥檚 ability to heal scratches and cuts in the latest episode of its award-winning Bytesize Science series. The video is available at .
The video takes viewers on a tour of the lab of Nancy Sottos, Ph.D., who has published articles on the self-healing plastics in a number of ACS peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is an engineering professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana鈥揅hampaign. Inspired by human skin, the plastics repair themselves by 鈥渂leeding鈥� healing agents when they are cut or scratched.
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This development offers the promise of cell phones, laptops, cars and other products with self-repairing, longer-lasting surfaces. However, Sottos anticipates that it may be awhile before the self-healing technology is widely used in electronic goods. She expects it will first be used in more durable, self-healing paints and coatings.
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