{"id":107141,"date":"2020-05-16T02:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/self-repairing-shoes-may-be-a-reality-thanks-to-3d-printed-rubber"},"modified":"2020-05-16T02:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T09:05:01","slug":"self-repairing-shoes-may-be-a-reality-thanks-to-3d-printed-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/self-repairing-shoes-may-be-a-reality-thanks-to-3d-printed-rubber","title":{"rendered":"Self-repairing shoes may be a reality thanks to 3D-printed rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UzbwwiKp14M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shoes will invariably wear out with enough use, but scientists might have found a way to delay the shopping trip for their replacements. A USC team has <a href=\"https:\/\/viterbischool.usc.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/broke-your-shoe-what-if-it-could-repair-itself\/\">created<\/a> a self-healing 3D-printed rubber that could be ideal for footwear, tires and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/10\/03\/soft-robot-arm-jellyfish\/\">soft robotics<\/a>. The effort involves 3D printing the material with photopolymerization (solidifying a resin with light) while introducing an oxidizer at just the right ratio to add self-healing properties without slowing down the solidifying process.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"display:none;\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fig. 1: Additive manufacturing of self-healing elastomers.\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-repairing-shoes-may-be-a-reality-thanks-to-3d-printed-rubber3.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 face_with_colon_three Shoes will invariably wear out with enough use, but scientists might have found a way to delay the shopping trip for their replacements. A USC team has created a self-healing 3D-printed rubber that could be ideal for footwear, tires and even soft robotics. The effort involves 3D printing the material with photopolymerization [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}