Self-Healing Plastic Skin
January 22, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
For an artificial material to mimic human skin, it must be both electrically conductive to convey touch, and capable of self-healing. To that end, chemical engineers at Stanford have found they could achieve both features with a nickel imbedded polymer material. It is sensitive to touch and can self-heal faster than human tissue. MORE
Image Credit: L.A. Cicero
Image Description: A small piece of the self-healing material is sliced with a scalpel. The researchers say the material repairs itself in about 30 minutes.