New plastic bleeds and heals like human skin
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A new plastic demonstrated to the American Chemical Society on Monday not only professes to self-repair when exposed to light, but to change color when damaged in a process akin to the bleeding of human skin (Photo: Shutterstock)
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Gizmag regulars will be well-used to the idea of self-healing materials, and even materials that repair themselves when exposed to light; but a new plastic demonstrated to the American Chemical Society on Monday purports to be the first self-healing material to incorporate a damage-reporting mechanism, almost akin to the bleeding of human skin.
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