<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/123e9e42-d734-45dd-858c-ebe644ce6f5c/93E1EB20-0370-454C-B6C8-0530F9640367/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7254939.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7254939.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7254939.stm"><TR><TD colspan="3"><DIV class="mxb"><DIV class="sh"> Self-healing rubber bounces back </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR><TR><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> </FONT><DIV class="mvb"> <FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="416" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="bottom"><DIV class="mvb"> <SPAN class="byl"> By Roland Pease </SPAN> <SPAN class="byd"> BBC Radio Science Unit </SPAN> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><IMG width="416" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/999999.gif" /> </FONT></DIV> <P> <FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="208" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD width="5"><IMG width="5" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" /></TD><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Self-repairing material (Ludwik Leibler)" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44439000/jpg/_44439572_rubber_203.jpg" /> </DIV> <DIV class="o"> <IMG width="203" vspace="2" hspace="0" height="1" border="0" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" /> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV class="mvtb"> <A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7255000?redirect=7255002.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&asb=1" linkindex="42" set="yes"> <IMG vspace="0" height="13" border="0" align="left" alt="" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/icons/video_text.gif" /><B>The material in action</B> </A> </DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.</B> </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The as-yet-unnamed material - a form of artificial rubber - is made from vegetable oil and a component of urine. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The substance, described in the journal Nature, produces surfaces when cut that retain a strong chemical attraction to each other. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Pieces of the material join together again as if never parted without the need for glue or a special treatment. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">This remarkable property comes from careful engineering of the molecules in the material. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The French researchers are already making kilogramme quantities in their Paris laboratories and say the process is almost completely green, and could be completely so with a few adjustments. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2"><B>'Tiny hands'</B> </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The secret of the substance lies in how the molecules are held together.</FONT></P></TD></TR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/93E1EB20-0370-454C-B6C8-0530F9640367/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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