Episode 14: Self-Healing Rubber

A look at an exciting new take on a widely used material, the science behind it, and potential future applications. Articles Discussed: 2008 Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06669 2012 Chen and coworkers UC Irvine https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1314 2013 Rahman and coworkers University of Brescia and Polytechnic of Milan https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am303015e 2015 Das and coworkers Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, & § Technische Universität Dresden https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b05041 2016 Xu and coworkers Guangxi University and South China University of Technology https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.6b05941 2017 Weitz group Harvard University https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702616

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