{"id":16707,"date":"2015-08-27T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/electrical-circuit-made-of-gel-can-repair-itself"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:47","slug":"electrical-circuit-made-of-gel-can-repair-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/electrical-circuit-made-of-gel-can-repair-itself","title":{"rendered":"Electrical circuit made of gel can repair itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-circuit-made-of-gel-can-repair-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Phys.org<\/i>)\u2014Scientists have fabricated a flexible electrical circuit that, when cut into two pieces, can repair itself and fully restore its original conductivity. The circuit is made of a new gel that possesses a combination of properties that are not typically seen together: high conductivity, flexibility, and room-temperature self-healing. The gel could potentially offer self-healing for a variety of applications, including flexible electronics, soft robotics, artificial skins, biomimetic prostheses, and energy storage devices.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, led by Guihua Yu, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, have published a paper on the new self-healing <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"textTag\">gel<\/a> in a recent issue of <i>Nano Letters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The new gel\u2019s properties arise from its hybrid composition of two gels: a supramolecular gel, or \u2018supergel\u2019, is injected into a conductive polymer hydrogel matrix. As the researchers explain, this \u201cguest-to-host\u201d strategy allows the chemical and physical features of each component to be combined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-08-electrical-circuit-gel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014Scientists have fabricated a flexible electrical circuit that, when cut into two pieces, can repair itself and fully restore its original conductivity. The circuit is made of a new gel that possesses a combination of properties that are not typically seen together: high conductivity, flexibility, and room-temperature self-healing. The gel could potentially offer self-healing for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497,1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707","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\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69666,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16707\/revisions\/69666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}