According to the NHK television station, a research team at Tokyo University in Japan developed for the first time in the world a glass that can be restored to the original state by simply fracturing the fractured surface. The glass that was developed by Tokyo University Professor Atsuda Zhuozo and Ph.D candidate Liu Zeyu et al Human research group. The group was originally engaged in the development of new adhesives, they accidentally discovered a hard and smooth material with the ability to restore the initial state of self-repair.
Figure: NHK television screenshots
The English name for the substance is' poly'thioureas' and ethylene glycol '. Glass made of this material can be restored to its original shape after a few tens of seconds of pressing the cross-section, and the strength will be restored after a few hours .
Previously found substances that self-repair even at room temperature were softer, rubber-like materials that were previously considered difficult to achieve as hard as glass.
Yoozawa said he found himself half-hearted and suspicious, pointed out various problems in writing essays, repeated many experiments.Can repair the glass, will be different from the kind of broken before throwing the model, if it can become an environment Friendly materials themselves will be very happy.
