New material is capable of healing cuts

American physicists have created a super-soft material capable of healing scratches, cuts and the ability to feel contact. This material can be used to make artificial leather.

The author of this patent said: "Before our work, it is hard to imagine that we could make a soft material that is conducive to good electrical healing. be scratches, wounds. A new cut will 'heal' after a few seconds. While human skin also needs a few days to heal. '

A team of physicists, Zhenan Bao, of the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been trying to 'regenerate' the striking features of soft-skinned, sustained, highly sensitive and self-healing stains. Compared to an artificial material.

In 2010, Bao and his colleagues created a material that is conductive, reacts to contact and is pushed.

Researchers claim that their invention will
It attracts the attention of doctors and scientists
study, research on the field of foot, prosthesis in the future.

In this new study, the authors decided to add more 'wound healing' to this material. In recent years many groups of scientists have created self-healing materials, but all of them have shortcomings that can not be applied to artificial skin.

Bao and his colleagues successfully solved this difficult problem with the use of two more important components: hydrocarbon polymer and nickel nanoparticles. The hydrocarbon chain is soft and flexible, essential for the skin's healing properties, and it can conduct electricity.

Nikel has solved two problems: to make the skin more durable, while improving the skin's ability to transmit.

The scientists created a thin piece of nanoparticle and polymer. They then checked to see how the piece reacted to the cut. As a result, the 'wound' on the surface of the piece disappeared only after a few seconds and completely disappeared after 30 minutes. A glove made from this material can feel the pressure when shaking hands.

Inventors believe this will be the future material for artificial skin.