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Published online 15 February 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010222-1
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Plastic, heal thyself
Fatigued materials have a new self-help cure.
A new self-healing plastic may help cracked aircraft wings, circuit boards and tennis racquets to escape the ignominy of the landfill. This clever composite material could mitigate the costly and inconvenient weakening effects of material 'fatigue', say its developers Scott White and co-workers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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