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Scientists Create World's First Self-Healing Plastic
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:38 pm
by Batteau62
Has anyone read this? The possibilities as a printer filament are intriguing. I wonder if it can be processed as a filament?
http://inhabitat.com/scientists-create- ... g-plastic/
http://www.plastix-world.com/the-termin ... a-is-here/
Re: Scientists Create World's First Self-Healing Plastic
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:51 pm
by DavidF
I created the same thing 10 years ago by accident when i put too little cobalt into a mix of vyanlester resin and over accelerated it with dimethylene. If I knew my screw up would have attracted world wide attention I would have slapped a patent on it. LOL
Re: Scientists Create World's First Self-Healing Plastic
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:10 pm
by Generic Default
That stuff looks pretty cool, DavidF, give us a recipe!
It does look pretty weak though. Maybe for use as overmolding if it isn't toxic.
Re: Scientists Create World's First Self-Healing Plastic
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:52 pm
by JFettig
Definitely not something very new, we talked about this in my polymers class in college, same goes for self healing composites that have resin pockets of sorts that when a crack propogates through them, they 'heal' themselves.