USAF Eyes Skin-Like Material for Future Airframes
An aircraft’s skin may one day be literally skin. Development of a research material that is skin-like and self-healing is being eyed by the U.S. Air Force. The service is funding researchers at the University of Illinois who are creating structural, microvascular materials that are self-healing on...
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