This material for smartphone screens can repair itself

What's more annoying than a cracked or shattered smartphone screen?

Well, lots of things, probably, but that doesn't mean it isn't still really frustrating. Luckily, it may not be for that much longer, thanks to new research that has produced a material capable of self-repair that could be used for future smartphone screens. But how does it work?

In IT Blogwatch, we learn something new. 

So what is going on? Alexandra Arici shares some background:

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside invented a new self-healing...material that has the potential to solve the expensive problem of cracked smartphone displays permanently...thanks to the new screen material, in the near future smartphones with bruised displays will simply be able to self-heal the damage.

Self-healing? What exactly does that mean? Nick Whigham elaborates:

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