新型材料的自我修复功能：碎屏能自动愈合-英语课

时间：2019-02-02 作者：英语课 分类：阅读空间

英语课

　　A new self-repairing material has been developed by researchers in the UK and they say it’ll be ready to integrate into everything from smartphone screens to nail varnish 1 within the next five years.

　　英国研究员已开发一种能自我修复的新型材料，他们声称在未来5年内，这款材料将整合入所有的东西中——从智能手机屏幕到指甲油。
　　Originally developed for aeroplane wings, the technology has the potential to revolutionise a range of industries with the capacity to move into tiny cracks and harden inside like the way blood forms a dry, protective scab to heal flesh wounds.
　　这项科技原本是为飞机机翼打造的，但如今它拥有彻底改变一系列工业的潜能：新型材料能移至细微裂纹加固内部，就如同血液会自动形成干燥、保护性的痂来痊愈皮肉伤一样。
　　Made from a mixture of different carbon-based chemicals, this new healing agent produces a sheet of millions of microscopic 2 spheres. When a crack breaks these hollow microspheres apart, a liquid is released that moves into the newly formed gap. A chemical reaction then causes the polymerisation - or hardening - of this liquid, causing it to glue to the edges of the cracks and form a hard, near-invisible filler.
　　这种新型治愈体由不同碳基化工品混合而成，会生成一张由数百万微观球体构成的板面。当裂缝打碎了空心球体的表面，它会释放一种液体填补到新的裂缝中去。随后的化学反应生成聚合作用，将液体硬化，使之将裂缝边缘沾到一起，形成几乎看不见的坚硬填充物。
　　新型材料的自我修复功能：碎屏能自动愈合
　　The technology has been developed by a team from England’s University of Bristol, led by chemist Duncan Wass, and was presented at a Royal Society meeting in London last month.
　　这项技术是由英国布里斯托尔大学化学家邓肯·沃斯带领下的一支小队研发而成，上月于英国皇家学会会议上展示。
　　"We took inspiration from the human body," Wass told Chris Green at The Independent.
　　“我们从人类身体中获得了灵感，”沃斯告诉《独立报》的克里斯·格林。
　　"We’ve not evolved to withstand any damage - if we were like that we’d have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros 3 - but if we do get damaged, we bleed, and it scabs and heals. We just put that same sort of function into a synthetic 4 material: let’s have something that can heal itself."
　　“我们不是生来就能抵御一切伤害的——如果我们真能做到，那我们的皮肤就跟犀牛一样厚了——但如果我们真的受伤了，我们会流血，会结痂会愈合。我们只是将同样的原理应用到了合成材质中：让材料也能自我修复。”