{"id":142864,"date":"2022-07-26T00:23:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/self-healing-textiles-means-you-dont-have-to-throw-away-your-torn-jeans-just-add-water"},"modified":"2022-07-26T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:23:51","slug":"self-healing-textiles-means-you-dont-have-to-throw-away-your-torn-jeans-just-add-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/self-healing-textiles-means-you-dont-have-to-throw-away-your-torn-jeans-just-add-water","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing textiles means you don\u2019t have to throw away your torn jeans \u2014 just add water"},"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\/r_VRvmxG_8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Penn State scientists made a coating that allows conventional textiles used in everyday clothing to patch themselves up. Derived from squid ring teeth, the coating can turn virtually any fabric into a self-healing one. Simply adding water is enough to kick start the repairing process.<\/p>\n<p>Nano research has already revealed the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmescience.com\/research\/nano-textiles-53491\/\">self-cleaning clothes<\/a>, and now a new study reveals the potential for similar technology in suits that can be used to protect soldiers from chemical or biological attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 Penn State scientists made a coating that allows conventional textiles used in everyday clothing to patch themselves up. Derived from squid ring teeth, the coating can turn virtually any fabric into a self-healing one. Simply adding water is enough to kick start the repairing process. Nano research has already revealed the potential of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142864","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=142864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}