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Army, Texas A&M Working On 3D-Printable, Self-Healing Materials For Future Platforms

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Army, Texas A&M Working On 3D-Printable, Self-Healing Materials For Future Platforms
The Army Research Laboratory is working with Texas A&M University on 3D-printable, self-healing materials. Photo: U.S. Army

The Army is working with Texas A&M University to develop 3D-printable materials for future platforms that are able to autonomously self-heal, the service said Monday. Researchers said the stimuli-responsive polymeric materials in the future could be embedded with intelligence to autonomously adapt and reconfigure to its environment. “The first-of-its-kind, 3-D printable and stimuli-responsive polymeric materials are expected to enable massive reconfigurability in future military platforms, which opens new opportunities for morphing unmanned air vehicles and robotic platforms,” the Army wrote in…

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