{"id":148183,"date":"2022-10-14T15:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-create-material-that-transforms-from-soft-to-hard-when-exposed-to-light"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:24:23","slug":"researchers-create-material-that-transforms-from-soft-to-hard-when-exposed-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/researchers-create-material-that-transforms-from-soft-to-hard-when-exposed-to-light","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create material that transforms from soft to hard when exposed to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-material-that-transforms-from-soft-to-hard-when-exposed-to-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by living things, the unique material is 10 times as durable as natural rubber.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers use only light and a catalyst to change properties such as hardness and elasticity in molecules of the same type, according to a new study published October 13 in Science.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to control the physical properties of a material using light as a trigger is potentially transformative.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>IStock\/selimcan.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by living things like trees and shellfish, the team created a unique material that is ten times as durable as natural rubber and may lead to more flexible electronics and robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by living things, the unique material is 10 times as durable as natural rubber. For the first time, researchers use only light and a catalyst to change properties such as hardness and elasticity in molecules of the same type, according to a new study published October 13 in Science. The ability to control the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148183","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}