🩹 Self-Healing Material Lab

🤔 What Is This?

Self-healing materials autonomously repair damage using embedded microcapsules that rupture upon cracking, releasing a liquid healing agent that fills the damage and cures to restore structural integrity — like a biological wound-healing response engineered into synthetic materials.

Why it matters: Self-healing materials can dramatically extend the lifespan of infrastructure, vehicles, and electronics by autonomously repairing micro-damage before it propagates into catastrophic failure — reducing maintenance costs, improving safety, and enabling structures in remote or inaccessible locations.