Wires connecting digital clock to microcontroller remain conductive during damage. This is enabled by the material's extraordinary ability to create new electrically conductive pathways around the damaged area.
This work was recently reported in Nature Materials and is now available online: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-018-0084-7
You can also read more about this work at
Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-self-healing-material-breakthrough-bio-inspired-robotics.html
Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2018/05/24/terminator-skin-researchers-create-self-healing-material-for-robots/?utm_term=.01ade8c71f41
Soft Machines Lab
Carnegie Mellon University
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