Tougher Self-Healing rubber

Aug-19-17 An innovative new self-healing rubber could end flat tires forever.

A team at Harvard created the rubber by developing a new way to mix reversible and covalent bonds in dry rubber. This unique process causes the bonds to mix at the molecular level, combining the self-healing properties of reversible hydrogen bonds with the integrity-lending covalent bonds.

The resulting rubber is both extremely tough as well as able to self-heal from punctures.

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