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Nature 446, xi (22 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/7134xia; Published online 21 March 2007
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Making the paper: Jeffrey Moore
'Self-healing' materials that can automatically repair their daily wear and tear could produce lenses that never scratch or cars that always look new. In 2001, Jeffrey Moore and his colleagues Scott White and Nancy Sottos at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, described one such self-healing polymer.
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