“Of course, there are lots of industries whose product engineers would love to translate this finding into intentional engineering approaches to create metals that automatically heal themselves in our structural applications,” lead-author Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, told Live Science. “Self-healing metals could be useful in a wide range of applications from airplane wings to automotive suspensions.”

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  • @A_A@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    Test was conducted during transmission electron microscope observation under high vacuum and at extremely small scale.
    Powder metallurgy does as much “healing” many times over.

    • @RazzleDazzle@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Isn’t the cold welding of metals in vacuum well-known? And couldn’t the electron beam provide energy to encourage the “healing” as well?