SO YOU'RE TIRED OF HAVING CRACKED IPHONES AFTER AN ACCIDENTAL DROP - WELL THAT MAYBE A THING OF THE PAST AS SELF HEALING SKIN LIKE SCREENS WOULD FIX ITSELF IN 24HOURS AS DEVELOPED BY SCIENTEST FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE AND COLORADO- UNFORTUNATELY NOT SOON ENOUGH FOR THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF SMARTPHONES LIKE APPLE'S SELF DESTRUCTION SCREENS AFTER BEING DROPPED

SCIENTISTS have developed a new material that could solve one of the most annoying issues faced by smartphone users.

The material is transparent, highly stretchable, conductive and most importantly, self-healing. It literally repairs itself when cracked or torn.
Created by chemists at the University of California at Riverside and the University of Colorado, it will likely have numerous uses in robotics and consumer electronics and could ultimately make your cracked iPhone screen a thing of the past.
“Creating a material with all these properties has been a puzzle for years,” one of the leading researchers Chao Wang said in a statement.
“We did that and now are just beginning to explore the applications.”
Perhaps due to their ubiquity, some people have gone so far as to suggest a broken phone screen is a status symbol — a testament to one’s high-paced life. But for those of us who aren’t keen to prove our social mobility by breaking our stuff, such a material could be a godsend.
Speaking to Science Daily, Dr Wang said the team conducted a number of experiments on the material’s ability to repair itself. In one instance, after being torn in half, it automatically stitched itself back together in under 24 hours.
According to his university, Dr Wang developed an interest in self-healing materials because of his lifelong love of Wolverine, the comic book character who has the ability to self-heal.
“He could save the world, but only because he could heal himself. A self-healing material, when carved into two parts, can go back together like nothing has happened, just like our human skin,” he said.
“I’ve been researching making a self-healing lithium ion battery, so when you drop your cell phone, it could fix itself and last much longer.”
The low-cost, easy to produce soft rubber-like material can stretch to 50 times its original length.

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