Self healing rubber

Frith · 21-02-2008, 04:51 PM

A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.

The as-yet-unnamed material - a form of artificial rubber - is made from vegetable oil and a component of urine.

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... the new rubber could be recycled and remoulded many times over, but that if separated by a cut or break, the chemical hands at the fresh surfaces would still be waving about ready to bind again.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Self-healing rubber bounces back

Akria · 21-02-2008, 07:25 PM

Interesting.

g hall · 25-02-2008, 03:43 PM

Handy for condoms

21-02-2008, 04:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Frith Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 660	Self healing rubber A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers. The as-yet-unnamed material - a form of artificial rubber - is made from vegetable oil and a component of urine. ... ... the new rubber could be recycled and remoulded many times over, but that if separated by a cut or break, the chemical hands at the fresh surfaces would still be waving about ready to bind again. BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Self-healing rubber bounces back

21-02-2008, 07:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
Akria Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Grimsby, NELincs Posts: 2,456 Party: None	Interesting. __________________ I am getting very tired of people not reading my posts properly. Please do not reply to me unless you are sure you have not missed out the key points I am making and key words I am using. http://real-democracy.co.uk \| Admin and proud The commonality of mankind: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?

25-02-2008, 03:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erehwon Posts: 5,233	Handy for condoms __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

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