The Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur, have developed piezoelectric molecular crystals.
These crystals can repair their own mechanical damages with electrical charges generated by the mechanical impact.
The research supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India has been published in the journal ‘Science’.
The piezoelectric molecules developed by the researchers are called bipyrazole organic crystals.