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Self-Healing Plastic Skin

Posted by kdawson on from the polymer-heal-thyself dept.

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."

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  1. Plastic skin... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    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
  2. Burn victims by Atheose · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Body-shop by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought auto-repair was limited to C&C Generals :-)
    I don't know where you live, but there are three auto-repair shops within a couple miles of my house. One of them even specializes in fancy imports.
    --
    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  4. Re:One ste closer... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can't help but wonder what adverse side effects there might be for some individuals.

    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."
  5. Re:One step closer... by Yoozer · · Score: 4, Funny

    What possible side effects could there be to being a plastic based life form?
    You insensitive clod! I'm melting! I'm melting!
  6. Re:One ste closer... by Thrakamazog · · Score: 5, Funny

    What possible side effects could there be to being a plastic based life form? People constantly trying to recycle you?