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Self-Healing Plastic Skin
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have developed a form of plastic skin that can heal itself when damaged. The material relies on an underlying network of vessels — similar to blood capillaries — that carry a healing agent to areas on the material's surface that sustain damage. Unlike previous self-healing systems that relied on capsules of agent buried in the polymer and which became depleted after one use, the new system can respond to damage at the same point many times over."
Plastic skin...
No big win.
A chiseled chin,
Flashy as Flynn:
Burma Shave
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
HAIL Joan Rivers!
Imagine how this could be applied to burn victims.
Or, on a more humerous note, Michael Jackson. Though I suppose there's no cure for wierdness.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Well, individuals who don't RTFA might end up sticking this stuff to themselves instead of using it in machinery or structures.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Well first, this isn't meant for biological applications. Second, if it were then I somehow doubt it would be *worse* than having *no skin at all*.
HELL, Burt Reynolds!
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Finally, my morning tormentor will be able to heal itself after its otherwise-fatal blow or toss.
you shouldn't be getting too excited by the use of the term "skin".
Obviously you have high expectations for Slashdot.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
We can do that live action version of The Polar Express