In today’s feature-laden electronics devices, the failure of 1 little electronic component can scuttle the full package. To make matters worse, if the wear and tear happens to strike something like a multilayer integrated circuit, then you definately pretty well must replace the entire computer chip. But what if the chip could repair itself like a undeniable vertically challenged Canadian mutant? That’s exactly what researchers on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign managed to do after placing self-healing polymers on top of a gold circuit. Once a break occurred, microcapsules with liquid metal filled the crack and restored 99 percent of conductivity in mere microseconds. Self-healing electronics would especially be helpful on such things as aircraft , where miles of conductive wires could make finding a break difficult, researchers said. The research is barely the newest in a field that still has seen self-healing sensors and shape-memory polymers , but sadly, there’s still no word on using these things to self-heal a broken heart….
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