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Researchers create self-healing, stretchable wires using liquid metal

Researchers create self-healing, stretchable wires using liquid metal, R&D Magazine, Jan. 23, 2013. NC State researchers 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. Michael Dickey, chemical and biomolecular engineering, featured.