{"id":15597,"date":"2015-07-21T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/metal-foams-found-to-excel-in-shielding-x-rays-gamma-rays-neutron-radiation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:23","slug":"metal-foams-found-to-excel-in-shielding-x-rays-gamma-rays-neutron-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/metal-foams-found-to-excel-in-shielding-x-rays-gamma-rays-neutron-radiation","title":{"rendered":"Metal foams found to excel in shielding X-rays, gamma rays, neutron radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metal-foams-found-to-excel-in-shielding-x-rays-gamma-rays-neutron-radiation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lightweight composite metal foams like this one have been found effective at blocking X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation, and are capable of absorbing the energy of high impact collisions \u2014 holding promise for use in nuclear safety, space exploration, and medical technology applications (credit: Afsaneh Rabiei, North Carolina State University) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/metal-foams-found-to-excel-in-shielding-x-rays-gamma-rays-neutron-radiation\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightweight composite metal foams like this one have been found effective at blocking X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation, and are capable of absorbing the energy of high impact collisions \u2014 holding promise for use in nuclear safety, space exploration, and medical technology applications (credit: Afsaneh Rabiei, North Carolina State University) Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69826,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15597\/revisions\/69826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}