Between 1970 and present, global production of plastic has grown tenfold, faster than any other mass-produced material. This revolution has been fuelled by mankind’s demand for cheap, lightweight and strong materials used in industry, transportation, science, and consumer products. Plastics are ubiquitous in our everyday lives, from simple things like food packaging to items that often go unnoticed, but serve critical functions. With an emerging understanding of how plastic waste affects the environment, and few methods for reliably recycling the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic created every year, efforts to increase the lifespan of plastics are quickly growing. A new class of polymeric materials that has self-healing abilities may breathe new life into old plastics, helping improve the durability of plastic components in many applications. These self-healing polymers are able to repair damage without human intervention and could be used in complex systems where maintenance is expensive or even impossible. As the technology advances, self-healing polymers could eventually become nearly as widespread as regular plastics, and open new possibilities in fields such as biomedical devices, space exploration, and electronics.
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