New Recipe For Self-healing Plastic Includes Dash Of Food Additive
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 11:21
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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