Wednesday, October 28, 2009

New material with intrinsic 'repairability' for aircraft and car safety

Self-repairing aircraft and cars are now one step nearer, thanks to research at the University of Reading into materials with intrinsic "repairability" built into their design. Researchers in the Readding Centre for Advanced Polymers (ReCAP), based in the Department of Chemistry, have designed an entirely novel material in which the binding forces between two different plastics are designed to be quantitatively reversible.

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