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This Glassy Gel Is a Surprising New Class of Material That Heals Itself
• arclein"We stumbled into these interesting materials," he says, when NCSU researcher Meixiang Wang was experimenting with ionogels, materials made of a polymer swollen with an ionic liquid that conducts electricity. Wang was trying to make stretchabl