{"id":142219,"date":"2022-07-14T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nanotube-embedded-coating-detects-threats-from-wear-and-tear-in-large-structures"},"modified":"2022-07-14T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:25:33","slug":"nanotube-embedded-coating-detects-threats-from-wear-and-tear-in-large-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nanotube-embedded-coating-detects-threats-from-wear-and-tear-in-large-structures","title":{"rendered":"Nanotube-embedded coating detects threats from wear and tear in large structures"},"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\/DG04eP50Qfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018strain paint\u2019 first revealed by Rice in 2012 uses the fluorescent properties of nanotubes to show when a surface has been deformed by stress.<\/p>\n<p>Now developed as part of a non-contact optical monitoring system known as S4, the multilayered coating can be applied to large surfaces \u2014 bridges, buildings, ships and airplanes, for starters \u2014 where high strain poses an invisible threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University that uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures is ready for prime time. The \u2018strain paint\u2019 first revealed by Rice in 2012 uses the fluorescent properties of nanotubes to show when a surface has been deformed by stress. Now developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142219","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=142219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}