Bendable Concrete Heals Itself

Traditional concrete is brittle and is easily fractured during an earthquake or by overuse. By contrast, the new concrete composite can bend into a U-shape without breaking. When strained, the material forms hairline cracks, which auto-seal after a few days of light rain.

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Self-repairing materials

Material scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi have created a new polymer that can fix its own scratches under regular sunlight. Source

A technique pioneered at Bristol University in England and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council allows aircraft built with fiber-reinforced polymer (or FRP), which most commercial planes use, to automatically repair minor wear and tear during flight. Source

Claytronics

Intel and Carnegie Mellon University's goal is to give tangible, interactive forms to information so that a user's senses will experience digital environments as though they are indistinguishable from reality.

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