Aerospace engineers at the University of Bristol are researching a 'self-healing' material, which will mend itself should it crack and mimicking a living being repairing its own broken bones.
The material is formed from glass fibres which have two molecules found in epoxy resin are added it to. Half the fibres contain one molecule and half the other so should the material be broken, the molecules are released to which react with one another, forming epoxy and mending the crack.
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