{"id":149956,"date":"2022-11-11T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/using-an-acoustic-field-to-create-a-liquid-metal-conductive-network-inside-a-polymer"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:27:12","slug":"using-an-acoustic-field-to-create-a-liquid-metal-conductive-network-inside-a-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/using-an-acoustic-field-to-create-a-liquid-metal-conductive-network-inside-a-polymer","title":{"rendered":"Using an acoustic field to create a liquid metal conductive network inside a polymer"},"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\/FEkSu_nANAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of <i>Science<\/i> and Technology, working with a colleague from Institute for Basic <i>Science<\/i>, both in the Republic of Korea, has found an easy way to create an electronic network inside a polymer. They used an acoustic field to connect liquid metal dots.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper published in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, the group describes their technique and its possible uses. Ruirui Qiao and Shi-Yang Tang with the University of Queensland in Australia and the University of Birmingham, in the U.K., respectively, have published a Perspectives piece in the same journal outlining the work done by the team.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/portable+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">portable devices<\/a> have become mainstream, consumers have demanded more ease of use. One such call is for devices to be bendable and\/or stretchable. It is believed such a change would make them fit more easily and naturally in pockets or purses\u2014and they might be more comfortable in the hands, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, working with a colleague from Institute for Basic Science, both in the Republic of Korea, has found an easy way to create an electronic network inside a polymer. They used an acoustic field to connect liquid metal dots. In their paper published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149956","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}