UT research leads to revolutionary ‘self-healing’ gel for electronics

In the scramble to invent the battery of the future, many of the world’s brightest minds have focused on finding new materials for the parts that conduct the juice. Guihua Yu and his University of Texas research team focused on goo: a “self-healing” gel that could hold together the electrodes that tend to crack in next-generation batteries as they charge.

They got the gel to work late last year, according to a pair of peer-reviewed reports published in the scientific journal Nano Letters. The breakthrough has implications for technologies as small as an iPhone, as large as batteries that could power entire cities and as hip as Tesla’s electric cars.

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UT RESEARCH LEADS TO REVOLUTIONARY ‘SELF-HEALING’ GEL FOR ELECTRONICS

They got the gel to work late last year, according to a pair of peer-reviewed reports published in the scientific journal Nano Letters. The breakthrough has implications for technologies as small as an iPhone, as large as batteries that could power entire cities and as hip as Tesla’s electric cars.

UT Research Leads To Revolutionary ‘Self-Healing’ Gel For Electronics