Researchers Create Self-Healing, Stretchable Wires Using Liquid Metal

January 30, 2013 Miranda Drake

Researchers Create Self-Healing, Stretchable Wires Using Liquid Metal, NASA Tech Briefs, Jan. 29, 2013. Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed elastic, self-healing wires in which both the liquid-metal core and the polymer sheath reconnect at the molecular level after being severed.

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Researchers Create Self-Healing, Stretchable Wires Using Liquid Metal

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