{"id":165519,"date":"2023-06-10T20:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T01:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/liquid-metal-breakthrough-can-transform-everyday-materials-into-electronic-smart-devices"},"modified":"2023-06-10T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T01:25:26","slug":"liquid-metal-breakthrough-can-transform-everyday-materials-into-electronic-smart-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/liquid-metal-breakthrough-can-transform-everyday-materials-into-electronic-smart-devices","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Metal Breakthrough Can Transform Everyday Materials Into Electronic \u201cSmart Devices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liquid-metal-breakthrough-can-transform-everyday-materials-into-electronic-smart-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinese scientists have devised a technique to coat everyday materials like paper and plastic with liquid metal, potentially creating \u201csmart devices.\u201d The method, which involves adjusting pressure rather than using a binding material, successfully enables the liquid metal to adhere to surfaces, a previously challenging task due to high surface tension.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyday materials such as paper and plastic could be transformed into electronic \u201csmart devices\u201d by using a simple new method to apply liquid metal to surfaces, according to scientists in Beijing, China. The study, published June 9 in the journal <em> Cell Reports.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;em&gt;Cell Reports&lt;\/em&gt; is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that published research papers that report new biological insight across a broad range of disciplines within the life sciences. Established in 2012, it is the first open access journal published by Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have devised a technique to coat everyday materials like paper and plastic with liquid metal, potentially creating \u201csmart devices.\u201d The method, which involves adjusting pressure rather than using a binding material, successfully enables the liquid metal to adhere to surfaces, a previously challenging task due to high surface tension. Everyday materials such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165519","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}