{"id":163444,"date":"2023-05-06T11:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-self-repairing-bacteria-repelling-metallic-coating-for-clothing-monitors-heart"},"modified":"2023-05-06T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:43:23","slug":"new-self-repairing-bacteria-repelling-metallic-coating-for-clothing-monitors-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-self-repairing-bacteria-repelling-metallic-coating-for-clothing-monitors-heart","title":{"rendered":"New self-repairing, bacteria-repelling metallic coating for clothing monitors heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-self-repairing-bacteria-repelling-metallic-coating-for-clothing-monitors-heart2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have invented a simple metallic coating treatment for clothing or <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/what-is-smart-clothing-technology-and-how-does-it-work\" title=\"wearable textiles \" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">wearable textiles,<\/a> which can repair itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/health\/virus-killing-clothing-firefighters-soldiers\" title=\"repel bacteria\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">repel bacteria<\/a>, and even monitor a person\u2019s electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signals.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a press release by Flinders University published last month.<\/p>\n<p>The inventors of the new coating say the conductive circuits created by liquid metal (LM) particles can transform wearable electronics due to the fact that the \u2018breathable\u2019 electronic textiles have special connectivity powers to \u2018autonomously heal\u2019 themselves even when cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have invented a simple metallic coating treatment for clothing or wearable textiles, which can repair itself, repel bacteria, and even monitor a person\u2019s electrocardiogram (ECG) heart signals. This is according to a press release by Flinders University published last month. The inventors of the new coating say the conductive circuits created by liquid metal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163444","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}