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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. for one... by Z80a · · Score: 1, Redundant

    i welcome the self healing,plastic cyborgs overlords

  2. tee hee. has anybody told Michael Jackson? by apodyopsis · · Score: 1, Redundant

    has anybody told Michael Jackson?

    I mean he's just got to be beating down their doors on this one....

    ..shudders.

    lets face it, any new design of skin is probably better then what he has.