Want Self-Healing Robots and Tires? Elastomers May Hold the Key
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We all have scars, and each one tells a story. Tales of tomfoolery, tales of haphazardness, or in my case, tales of stupidity.
We all have scars, and each one tells a story. Tales of tomfoolery, tales of haphazardness, or in my case, tales of stupidity.
Altmetric recently posted its usual top-100 list and, as usual, there was very little chemistry to be found on it (maybe the…
Researchers at Stanford have created a super-elastic polymer which can be stretched up to 100 times its length.
Science magazine highlighted a study in Nature Chemistry with the headline “Artificial muscle can heal itself”. While the study d…
Stanford chemical engineer Zhenan Bao, PhD, dreams of developing artificial skin that could allow people with artificial limbs…
Super-stretchy, self-healing material could lead to artificial…
If there’s such a thing as an experiment that goes too well, a recent effort in the…
The closest we've come to natural muscles is a novel elastomer developed at Stanford University, Palo Alto that can stretch 45…
This extremely stretchable polymer film can repair itself when punctured, suggesting potential applications in artificial muscle.