Scientists have developed a self-healing protective coating for concrete that could greatly reduce the need to regularly rebuild roads.

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McPhail explains that Liquipel has developed a proprietary nanotech coating that adding a superthin protective coating to all of the phones parts.

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The company saw growth in five of its six segments, including the two segments involved in the protective coating both vehicles and industrial building supplies.

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Multiple sclerosis attacks the nerves, stripping them of their protective coating.

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The latter, developed with partner Elan Pharmaceuticals, proved nearly twice as effective as other MS drugs at preventing the destruction of the protective coating around nerves, the main result of the disease.

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Pegasys takes an old hepatitis C drug, interferon, and wraps it in a protective polymer coating of polyethylene glycol (PEG for short) that prevents the interferon from being broken down quickly in the body.

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There's even a protective layer of splash-guard coating.

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