New recipe for self-healing plastic includes dash of food additive

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 10:07 in Physics & Chemistry

Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the University of Illinois who cooked up the novel, self-healing system.

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