Space, Technology and Society Self-Healing Electronics January 11, 2012 Rand Simberg 3 Comments This is the kind of breakthrough we will need for deep-space missions.
Pretty interesting development. If the liquid metal fills the crack via capillary action, it should work in any attitude and in weightless conditions.
They make ’em for people, too, but not in the USA where non-electronic/computer breakthroughs are illegal by default.
Somewhere a R2 unit is letting out a pitiful whimper as it shuffles into line at the local unemployment office.
Pretty interesting development. If the liquid metal fills the crack via capillary action, it should work in any attitude and in weightless conditions.
They make ’em for people, too, but not in the USA where non-electronic/computer breakthroughs are illegal by default.
Somewhere a R2 unit is letting out a pitiful whimper as it shuffles into line at the local unemployment office.