Stanford University researchers just synthesized a material which, when tested, produced some pretty remarkable results —it’s super stretchy, self-healing, and responsive to an electrical field. These properties make it a perfect material for artificial skin and muscle. The study, published in Nature Chemistry , was conducted by professor Zhenan Bao’s work group, which has been on a quest to develop artificial skin for quite some time now, and has previously had some success. According to the press release , when the researchers tested the newly synthesized elastomer, the results surprised them…its “stretchiness” had gone beyond the limits of the machine used to measure its elasticity and breaking point! The limit is only about 45 inches, so the researchers had to stretch the material on their own, and the 2.54 cm (1 in) sample they used had expanded to over 100 times its length. Beyond its shoc...
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