It’s amazing how fast we are moving now days towards our
future. We have a sports bra that monitors your workout, a suit that
lets you swap business cards digitally, beanie hat that tracks your
newborn’s vitals and currently there is a new revolution coming knocking on our
door and that is developing devices that can actually heal themselves.
Most wearable electronics today are expensive and
complicated to make, with multiple moving parts. One option for making cheaper
components is to print electronic devices, using a process that looks much like
conventional printing, but with special, electrically functional inks, Inks
that conduct electronic current to print circuits into materials like cloth or
paper. The downside to this technology is what anyone who wears clothes
knows--they can be easily damaged.
To solve this dilemma Engineers from the University
of California San Diego have developed a self-healing magical device which
they call magnetic ink that can be used to make batteries, electrochemical
sensors, and wearable, textile-based electrical circuits. It uses highly
magnetized ink to make a wearable that "heals" itself when it's
broken, by sticking itself back together and allowing the current to keep
flowing. The devices can repair tears as
wide as three millimetres and that is a world record in the field of
self-healing systems.
The other advantage of using magnetic ink is that, it is
cheap. Hundred of devices could be made with $10 worth of ink and because the
ink could make these products last longer, it would be a good step to achieve
sustainability in wearable devices.
So yes it is true. Now we can have clothes, circuits, batteries
and many more devices that can have the ability to actually heal themselves.
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