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What ways would you design plastic self-healing skin?

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The best-known self-healing materials have built-in microcapsules (tiny embedded pockets) filled with a glue-like chemical that can repair damage. If the material cracks inside, the capsules break open, the repair material "wicks" out, and the crack seals up.

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