Wow! This is a shocker to me, just thinking about the fact that a cracked screen could possibly mend itself? Well this serves to prove that nothing is impossible, imagine that android device or iphone with a cracked screen suddenly mending itself'. WOOOAHHH!!
Researchers based in the UK are busy working on a new kind of material
that is capable of repairing itself. They believe that the new material
would be able to integrate into things ranging from nail varnish to
smartphone displays in half a decade. Interestingly, this material was initially proposed for airplane wings.
Now it is capable of benefiting a number of different industries. For
instance, it can move within the minutest of cracks and harden itself
inside.
Constituting a mix of various chemicals that are based on carbon,
this fresh material manufactures a sheet of many millions of hollow
microscopic spheres. A liquid forms and moves into a new gap once the
crack breaks the millions of microspheres. What follows is a chemical
reaction that accounts for the hardening of this particular liquid which
leads to the liquid sticking to the edges of cracks that exist on the
surface.
This new technology has been the result of efforts by a team of researchers at University of Bristol which was led by Mr. Duncan Wass. The researchers have reported to have even achieved a hundred percent
recovery
on multiple occasions. They originally took their cue from the human
body. The human body is not immune to unlimited damage but it does go
into the process of healing upon any damage inflicted. The team claims
that it simply put that self-healing phenomenon in a synthetic material.
News is that L’Oreal is ready to put this idea to test and develop
some sort of nail varnish that possesses self-healing properties.
Imagine the unlimited prospects as a result of the success of something
that can heal itself; self-healing wind turbines, self-healing
car windshields, self-healing
car paint and so much more.
For now, the team is determined to work on smartphone displays that
will not crack upon impact. In addition, there is focus on smartphones
that can charge to a hundred percent within a minute by utilizing energy
from the air. Remember the time when we could actually exist without
mobile phones? We could soon be living in times when we would wonder how
primitive these tiny devices were.
But just after this what next? of course self mending windscreens, mirrors, louvres etc . Just thinking
Stephen Djes is a passionate Graduate of Engineering from the University of Benin, and he is geared towards helping fellow engineering students in the great institution of UNIBEN to do better at academics.
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