{"id":131223,"date":"2021-11-25T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/super-jelly-made-from-80-per-cent-water-can-survive-being-run-over"},"modified":"2021-11-25T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T23:22:31","slug":"super-jelly-made-from-80-per-cent-water-can-survive-being-run-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/super-jelly-made-from-80-per-cent-water-can-survive-being-run-over","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Super jelly\u2019 made from 80 per cent water can survive being run over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2021\/11\/24\/153990100283342703\/1024x576_MP4_153990100283342703.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>It could replace cartilage in knees and even help create soft robots \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it\u2019s \u2018super jelly\u2019 \u2014 a bizarre new material that can survive being run over by a car even though it\u2019s composed of 80 per cent water.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018glass-like <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-8245081\/Hydrogel-patch-phone-batteries-converts-waste-heat-electricity.html\">hydrogel<\/a>\u2019 may look and feel like a squishy jelly, but when compressed it acts like shatterproof glass, its University of Cambridge developers said.<\/p>\n<p>It is formed using a network of polymers held together by a series of reversible chemical interactions that can be tailored to control the gel\u2019s mechanical properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could replace cartilage in knees and even help create soft robots \ud83e\udd2f Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it\u2019s \u2018super jelly\u2019 \u2014 a bizarre new material that can survive being run over by a car even though it\u2019s composed of 80 per cent water. The \u2018glass-like hydrogel\u2019 may look and feel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131223","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}