{"id":166972,"date":"2023-07-06T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-create-highly-conductive-metallic-gel-for-3d-printing"},"modified":"2023-07-06T06:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:23:52","slug":"researchers-create-highly-conductive-metallic-gel-for-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-create-highly-conductive-metallic-gel-for-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create highly conductive metallic gel for 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-highly-conductive-metallic-gel-for-3d-printing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a metallic gel that is highly electrically conductive and can be used to print three-dimensional (3D) solid objects at room temperature. The paper, \u201cMetallic Gels for Conductive 3D and 4D Printing,\u201d has been published in the journal Matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3D printing has revolutionized manufacturing, but we\u2019re not aware of previous technologies that allowed you to print 3D metal objects at room <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">temperature<\/a> in a single step,\u201d says Michael Dickey, co-corresponding author of a paper on the work and the Camille &amp; Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. \u201cThis opens the door to manufacturing a wide range of electronic components and devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To create the metallic gel, the researchers start with a solution of micron-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/copper\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">copper<\/a> particles suspended in water. The researchers then add a small amount of an indium-gallium alloy that is liquid metal at room temperature. The resulting mixture is then stirred together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a metallic gel that is highly electrically conductive and can be used to print three-dimensional (3D) solid objects at room temperature. The paper, \u201cMetallic Gels for Conductive 3D and 4D Printing,\u201d has been published in the journal Matter. \u201c3D printing has revolutionized manufacturing, but we\u2019re not aware of previous technologies that allowed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1991,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-4d-printing","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166972","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=166972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}