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  • New smart plastics can heal on their own, to mend cracked phone screens or airplane wings

    Feb 23, 2016 1:30 pm by Popular ScienceIllinois in the News
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    Popular Science (Feb. 23) - . Illinois professor Nancy Sottos helped pioneer this field in the ’90s. Her team has developed composites that can repair themselves using a range of methods.