{"id":213060,"date":"2025-05-02T06:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/new-self-healing-polymer-possesses-a-quality-never-before-seen-at-any-scale"},"modified":"2025-05-02T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T11:05:44","slug":"new-self-healing-polymer-possesses-a-quality-never-before-seen-at-any-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/new-self-healing-polymer-possesses-a-quality-never-before-seen-at-any-scale","title":{"rendered":"New self-healing polymer possesses a quality never before seen at any scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-self-healing-polymer-possesses-a-quality-never-before-seen-at-any-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if there were a fabric that, like Superman, could take a bullet and self-heal? Such a super-dynamic, action-powered polymer might actually help protect real-life flyers in space.<\/p>\n<p>Material scientists at Texas A&amp;M University have developed just such a polymer with a unique self-healing property never before seen at any scale. When struck by a projectile, this material stretches so much that when the projectile manages to pass through, it takes only a small amount of the polymer with it. As a result, the hole left behind is much smaller than the projectile itself.<\/p>\n<p>However, for now, this effect has only been observed under <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extreme+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme temperatures<\/a> and at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if there were a fabric that, like Superman, could take a bullet and self-heal? Such a super-dynamic, action-powered polymer might actually help protect real-life flyers in space. Material scientists at Texas A&amp;M University have developed just such a polymer with a unique self-healing property never before seen at any scale. When struck by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}