Wolverine Cloth: The Self Healing Material

If you've watched the famous Marvel movie "X-Men"(2000) or "X-Men Origins:

Wolverine" or just "Logan" you must be familiar to indestructible superhero Wolverine.

It is illustrated in fiction that the hero can self heal his own skin after any injury to it.

Getting idea from this, scientists of Los Angeles have developed a transparent,

self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated

to power artificial muscles and used to improve batteries, electronic devices and

robots. The low-cost, easy to produce soft rubber-like material can stretch 50 times

its original length, researchers say,after being cut, it can completely re-attach, or heal,

in 24 hours at room temperature. In fact, after only five minutes of healing the

material can be stretched two times its original length.

The findings from researchers, including those from University of California, Riverside

in the US, represent the first time scientists have created an ionic conductor -

materials that ions can flow through, that is transparent, mechanically stretchable and

self-healing.The material could give robots the ability to self-heal after mechanical

failure; extend the lifetime of lithium ion batteries used in electronics and electric

cars and improve biosensors used in the medical field and environmental monitoring.

Self-healing materials repair damage caused by wear and extend the lifetime, and lower

the cost, of materials and devices.

Self-healing materials repair damage caused by wear and extend the lifetime, and lower

the cost, of materials and devices.