British researchers create a new “self-healing” material that can be incorporated into the screens of “smartphones” in the next five years.
The material originally intended for aircraft wings, has the ability to fill small cracks forming in the structure in the same way that human blood scab forms a healing surface wounds.
The product is composed of different chemical compounds to carbon base, the crack appear, it produces thousands of remedial microscopic spheres that its edges stick.
This modern system technology was developed by a team from the University of Bristol England , led by chemist Duncan Wass, and presented last month at a meeting of the Royal Society in London .
“We took inspiration from the human body “he said Wass in” The Independent “.
” We have not evolved to be able to withstand any damage, if so we would have a very thick skin like a rhinoceros, but when we hurt bleed and scab heals us. So we developed this feature to the synthetic material, “he said.
According to Leo King reported in Forbes magazine, researchers at L’Oreal work to develop some kind of lacquer Nail that allows its “self-healing”, which could be extended to other uses such as paint for the car, bike or boxes for wind turbines.
To succeed, manufacturers would have to add the chemical formula to existing materials, which would imply a change in manufacturing.
Wass said “the problem is in the details, you need to check the other properties are not adversely affected.”
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