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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

26 October 2017

Mussels grip onto rock using stretchy fibres with self-repairing molecular bonds. Mimicking the trick has inspired an extremely tough and elastic new material

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Mussel-inspired plastic could make self-repairing body armour

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