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Spanish scientists create self-healing 'Terminator' plastic
UPI 9/14/2013 12:05:30 AM
LONDON, Sept. 13 (UPI) --

Spanish scientists are reporting the world's first self-healing
polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself without
any intervention.



The new material, dubbed a "Terminator" polymer in tribute to the
shape-shifting, molten T-100 terminator robot from the "Terminator 2"
film, could be used to improve the security and lifetime of plastic
parts in everyday products such as electrical components, cars and
even houses, the researchers wrote in the Materials Horizons journal
of Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry.



It is the first self-healing polymer that can spontaneously achieve
quantitative healing in the absence of a catalyst, they said, and
after being cut in two and the pieces pressed together, a sample
displayed an impressive 97 per cent healing efficiency in just two
hours, being unbreakable when stretched manually.



The self-healing thermoset elastomers were created from common
polymeric starting materials using a simple and inexpensive approach,
the researchers reported.



"The fact that poly(urea-urethane)s with similar chemical composition
and mechanical properties are already used in a wide range of
commercial products makes this system very attractive for a fast and
easy implementation in real industrial applications," they said.

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