New recipe for self-healing plastic includes dash of food additive

10/16/2008

U of I researchers have improved a self-healing process originally described in 2001. In the new repair process, solvent-filled microcapsules that are embedded in an epoxy matrix rupture when a crack forms. The new solvent is non-toxic and less expensive.

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This story was published October 16, 2008.