But [Matthias Wandel] may be on to something. Here he’s using nichrome wire to reinforce the broken plastic part. The repair process is demonstrated in full in the video after the break.

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the team applied the same plastic material to another plastic ingredient with no self-repair function at a rate of 20 percent. The results showed the mixed plastic can spontaneously repair itself ...