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Doctors and health experts have been amazed by how fast and efficient the skin repairs itself since the dawn of time. Within just a few days, superficial scratches to the skin are healed without any trace, and with no scars. Special mechanisms inside the skin contribute to this effect, and experts have been looking for ways of replicating them for quite some time now. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Gessellschaft, in Germany, have recently made this possible, when they have invented a new type of electroplated layer that contains nanovesicles. As soon as the layer is damaged, liquid flows from the capsules, and repairs it completely. The tiny, nanometer-sized capsules are highly efficient at performing this task, AlphaGalileo reports. For a long time, the team behind the innovation, from the Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, in Stuttgart, have been annoyed by the fact that rust-protective layers, which are placed on metals to prevent them from catching rust, once !
damaged, lose their abilities. The same does not hold true for the skin, and this is one of the main reasons why they turned to it for inspiration. Introducing capsules in the layer itself is not a new idea. Research teams the world over tried to implement them, but they all ran into the same obstacle â€" the size of ...
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