{"id":168229,"date":"2023-07-24T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-accidentally-capture-metals-healing-themselves"},"modified":"2023-07-24T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:24:38","slug":"scientists-accidentally-capture-metals-healing-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-accidentally-capture-metals-healing-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Scientists accidentally capture metals \u2018healing\u2019 themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-accidentally-capture-metals-healing-themselves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metals aren\u2019t known to \u201cheal\u201d themselves on their own; once they break, it\u2019s assumed the materials remain broken unless outside forces reform them. But new research into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/magnetoactive-liquid-metal-demo\/\">metallic properties<\/a> indicates this isn\u2019t always the case. In fact, some metals appear to naturally mend of their own accord\u2014a discovery that could one day change engineering designs here on Earth and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>According to a study published last week in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06223-0\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, materials scientists from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Texas A&amp;M University discovered at least some metals\u2014in this case copper and platinum\u2014can \u201cundergo intrinsic self-healing.\u201d As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/physics-mathematics\/scientists-observe-metal-repairing-itself-for-the-first-time-could-terminator-robots-be-on-the-horizon\"><em>Live Science<\/em><\/a> recently noted, the team\u2019s observations came completely by accident while observing the two materials at a nanoscale level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/magnetoactive-liquid-metal-demo\/\">Watch this metallic material move like the T-1000 from \u2018Terminator 2\u2019<\/a>]<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metals aren\u2019t known to \u201cheal\u201d themselves on their own; once they break, it\u2019s assumed the materials remain broken unless outside forces reform them. But new research into metallic properties indicates this isn\u2019t always the case. In fact, some metals appear to naturally mend of their own accord\u2014a discovery that could one day change engineering designs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168229","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=168229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}