Scratch free, self healing cars!

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Scientists at the University of Southern Mississippi developed a polyurethane coating that heals its own scratches when exposed to sunlight. This breakthrough uses chitosan, a substance found in the shells of crabs and shrimp, to make scratches in polymer coating disappear.
"When a scratch damages the chemical structure, the chitosan responds to ultraviolet light by forming chemical chains that begin bonding with other materials in the substance, eventually smoothing the scratch. The process can take less than an hour," according to an article in Yahoo! Tech News.
The self-healing material can be used in the coatings that protect car paint, finally giving consumers a real reason to opt for the TrueCoat paint upgrade on a new car.
Scientists say that a scratch can only heal itself once in the same place, although the chances of two scratches appearing in the same place are slim.

sounds interesting.. lad in work got his car keyed during the week, such a bad act.

handy if the car healed itself in bad weather like!

Thats been out ages

hurler007

Ya i hear nissan will be the first to roll this out.

cena

i got mine keyed too. 80 euro to get fixed

rebel.ranter

cena wrote: »

i got mine keyed too. 80 euro to get fixed

That was cheap! Must not have been very deep. shallow enough so they could polish it out.

cena

HAD to get the hole area resparyed. i got the paint. 30 euro for half a litreand they had to put o clear coat on top of that. they are just after spending 50, 000 on a new spray boot and they can no make there own paint. which is good as wouldn't of had to get the paint myslef again. well i would be friends with the guys daughter/ sister

rebel.ranter

Aahhh!

Cyrus

hurler007 wrote: »

Ya i hear nissan will be the first to roll this out.

its out on their infinitis a good while

Thoie

Bit irritating in Ireland though if you got a scratch in September - it could be May before it was fixed.

rebel.ranter

Send it in for 10 minutes on the sunbeds in Chartbusters!