New Delhi: Imagine a situation where you don’t need to get a flat tyre fixed, ever. German researchers have developed a way to manufacture rubber that can heal itself.
If brought out commercially, the technology has a wide range of potential usage including on industrial machines that would create safer factory environment and in future, might also help reduce the wastage.
Researcher Amit Das and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, have modified a commercial grade tyre rubber to avoid the need for vulcanisation (a process to make rubber durable and stretchy).
They have used carbon and nitrogen additives that allow rubber to reform crucial bonds when torn or damaged.
When torn, their rubber can recover the durability and elasticity that vulcanisation gives.
The video by American Chemical Society demonstrates the innovative self-healing rubber:
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