{"id":151842,"date":"2022-12-04T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/going-back-to-basics-yields-a-printable-transparent-plastic-thats-highly-conductive"},"modified":"2022-12-04T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:25:08","slug":"going-back-to-basics-yields-a-printable-transparent-plastic-thats-highly-conductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/going-back-to-basics-yields-a-printable-transparent-plastic-thats-highly-conductive","title":{"rendered":"Going back to basics yields a printable, transparent plastic that\u2019s highly conductive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/going-back-to-basics-yields-a-printable-transparent-plastic-thats-highly-conductive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a simple idea\u2014maybe even too simple to work.<\/p>\n<p>Research scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia Tech chemists and engineers thought they could design a transparent polymer film that would conduct electricity as effectively as other commonly used materials, while also being flexible and easy to use at an industrial scale.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d do it by simply removing the nonconductive material from their conductive element. Sounds logical, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a simple idea\u2014maybe even too simple to work. Research scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia Tech chemists and engineers thought they could design a transparent polymer film that would conduct electricity as effectively as other commonly used materials, while also being flexible and easy to use at an industrial scale. They\u2019d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151842","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}