Self-Healing Electronics: A Superpower from Sci-Fi Transformed to Everyday Devices

Inspired by the Wolverine an X-Men character, a group of researchers created transparent, self-repairing and a highly stretchable material with electronical activation capabilities. This material is suitable especially to improve the performance of electronic devices such as smartphones and robots. Such material is created by combining a stretchable polar polymer with an ionic salt. Some of its features are:

  • This material has stretching capability to expand itself up to 50 times its size.
  • It can automatically repair itself within 24 hours of damage.
  • One of its applications can improve the battery lifetimes of the electronic devices.

One of the professors from the team believes that the market will have a range of self-healing products within the next three years such as the smartphone screens. Self- repairing robots is the most exciting application the scientists are working on. Although this material will change the lifestyle of people, scientists are still exploring it’s applications.