Illinois engineers develop a new rapid-acting, reversible polymer that changes color when it is about to fail. (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Illinois engineers develop a new rapid-acting, reversible polymer that changes color when it is about to fail.

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Beckman Institute director Jeffrey Moore, left, postdoctoral researcher Hai Qian and materials science and engineering head Nancy Sottos led a team of Illinois engineers in the development of a new rapid-acting, reversible polymer that changes color when it is about to fail.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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