{"id":139189,"date":"2022-05-11T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/nature-inspired-self-sensing-materials-could-lead-to-new-developments-in-engineering"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:03:00","slug":"nature-inspired-self-sensing-materials-could-lead-to-new-developments-in-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/nature-inspired-self-sensing-materials-could-lead-to-new-developments-in-engineering","title":{"rendered":"Nature-inspired self-sensing materials could lead to new developments in engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nature-inspired-self-sensing-materials-could-lead-to-new-developments-in-engineering2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cellular forms of natural materials are the inspiration behind a new lightweight, 3D printed smart architected material developed by an international team of engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by engineers from the University of Glasgow, mixed a common form of industrial plastic with carbon nanotubes to create a material which is tougher, stronger and smarter than comparable conventional materials.<\/p>\n<p>The nanotubes also allow the otherwise nonconductive plastic to carry an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+charge\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric charge<\/a> throughout its structure. When the structure is subjected to mechanical loads, its electrical resistance changes. This phenomenon, known as piezoresitivity, gives the material the ability to \u201csense\u201d its structural health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cellular forms of natural materials are the inspiration behind a new lightweight, 3D printed smart architected material developed by an international team of engineers. The team, led by engineers from the University of Glasgow, mixed a common form of industrial plastic with carbon nanotubes to create a material which is tougher, stronger and smarter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139189","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}