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They use glass fibres rather than carbon fibres in their composite and, instead of adding capsules, they have put the healing molecules into the fibres themselves.
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He found contaminated soils, what is thought to be asbestos fibres and broken glass.
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It included bricks, plastic, wood, glass, plaster and insulation fibres.
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The rod is heated until the glass flows easily, and then drawn into hair-thin fibres.
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So the researchers took advantage of the fibres' tendency to anchor themselves at defects on a treated glass surface.
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To enable this material to store electrical energy, two layers of woven fibres are made into a sandwich, separated by a thin layer of a glass-based insulating material.
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Conventional optical fibres (the most common form of waveguide at the moment) generally consist of two concentric layers of glass.
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