Researchers build self-healing plastic

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Researchers build self-healing plastic
US scientists have developed a self-healing material that uses a fibre optic "nervous system" to detect and address cracks. The material was expected to be used in large-scale composite structures for which human intervention would be difficult - for example, wind turbines, satellites, aircraft ...

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