'Self-healing' Product Could Stretch the Engineering Applications Of Asphalt, Rubber

摘要

French researchers have developed a new elastomer product that features a self-healing capability and that can be used as an additive in so-called warm asphalts, which are created at lower temperatures than traditional hot mixes. The research was conducted jointly by France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs) and Paris's Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (espci) and was reported in the February 21 issue of Nature ("Self-healing and Ther-moreversible Rubber from Supramolecular Assembly"). The article was written by Ludwik Leibler, Ph.D., the director of the cnrs-espci's Matiere Molle et Chimie (Soft Condensed Matter and Chemistry) laboratory, and Francois Tournilhac, Ph.D., Philippe Cordier, Ph.D., and Corinne Soulie-Ziakovic, Ph.D., all researchers at the laboratory.