It’s how this new material design can heal at room temperature on it’s own; this opens up a major potential for future applications within prosthetics to recover from severe damage.
@ARTICLE{9288989,
author={S. {Terryn} and J. {Brancart} and E. {Roels} and G. {Van Assche} and B. {Vanderborght}},
journal={IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine},
title={Room Temperature Self-Healing in Soft Pneumatic Robotics: Autonomous Self-Healing in a Diels-Alder Polymer Network},
year={2020},
volume={27},
number={4},
pages={44-55},
doi={10.1109/MRA.2020.3024275}}