Self-Healing Rubber

• xavier1979

  21 Feb 08, 20:03

  Read this at Yahoo! news:

   

  PARIS, Feb 20, 2008 (AFP) - - French chemists on Wednesday announced they had created rubber that heals itself after it has been cut, a breakthrough that could lead to clothes that self-mend if torn and toys that repair themselves if damaged by a tot.

  The molecular concoction -- described by other scientists as having "a touch of magic about it" -- can self-heal at room temperature in around 15 minutes by simply pressing the damaged pieces together, they report in the British weekly science journal Nature.

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  Can't imagine wearing rubber clothes though.
• Daisuke-kun

  21 Feb 08, 20:08

  awesome.

  wonder If They can put that as an ability for Luffy in One Piece.

• piakpiak

  21 Feb 08, 20:10

  condom can be reused !?!

• kenn3th

  21 Feb 08, 20:12

  Originally posted by piakpiak:

  condom can be reused !?!

  
  and higher the risk of contracting aids!

   

• Isis

  21 Feb 08, 20:18

  Originally posted by piakpiak:

  condom can be reused !?!

  Only cut dude.

  If used overstretched, elasticity can't be saved.