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"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 7 points 1 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 3 points 1 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?

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