"Anyone who has heard the snap of a rubber band breaking knows it's time to reach for a replacement.
But a group of French scientists have made a self-healing rubber band material that can reclaim its stretchy usefulness by simply pressing the broken edges back together for a few minutes.

The material, described on Wednesday in the journal Nature, can be broken and repaired over and over again."

Full article:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080221/tsc-uk-rubber-band-011ccfa_1.html
- Skinny 3-05-2008 12:01 pm


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