{"id":131839,"date":"2021-12-05T19:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/bulletproof-chainmail-scientists-created-flexible-fabric-that-stiffens-on-demand"},"modified":"2021-12-05T19:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:23:05","slug":"bulletproof-chainmail-scientists-created-flexible-fabric-that-stiffens-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/bulletproof-chainmail-scientists-created-flexible-fabric-that-stiffens-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"Bulletproof Chainmail: Scientists Created Flexible Fabric That Stiffens On Demand"},"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\/LocoDawNIns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore teamed up to develop a chain mail-inspired fabric that transforms from a fluid malleable material into a solid protective material when under pressure, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/material-inspired-by-chain-mail-transforms-from-flexible-to-rigid-on-command\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a press statement<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The material could be used for a host of potentially lifechanging applications, including as smart fabric for exoskeletons, for a cast that becomes more or less rigid when needed to facilitate the healing of an injury, and as a deployable bridge that could be thrown over an obstacle and stiffened so that people can walk across with ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore teamed up to develop a chain mail-inspired fabric that transforms from a fluid malleable material into a solid protective material when under pressure, a press statement reveals. The material could be used for a host of potentially lifechanging applications, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131839","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}