DARESBURY Laboratory scientists have discovered that a special form of carbon can repair itself.
Physicists said the ‘miracle material’ graphene, which is made of sheets of carbon one-atom-thick, has a wide range of potential applications from electronics to medicine.
Researchers used a powerful electron microscope at SuperStem at Daresbury, which allows scientists to study the properties of materials an atom at a time.
They recently demonstrated that metals can cause holes in graphene sheets, which could damage the function of any device made from the material.
Surprise results then showed that some of the holes that had been created during this process were actually mending themselves using nearby loose carbon atoms to re-knit the graphene structure.
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