{"id":16870,"date":"2015-09-03T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/self-healing-bioplastic-just-add-water"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:28:20","slug":"self-healing-bioplastic-just-add-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/self-healing-bioplastic-just-add-water","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing bioplastic \u2013 just add water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJ_qA80Ztww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if things like undersea cables or medical implants could simply heal themselves back together if severed \u2013 it would certainly be easier than having to go in and fix them. Well, scientists at Pennsylvania State University are bringing such a possibility closer to reality. They\u2019ve created a moldable polymer that heals itself when exposed to water \u2013 and it\u2019s based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/squid-sucker-teeth\/32817\/\" target=\"_blank\">squid sucker ring teeth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Prof. Melik Demirel, the researchers started by studying sucker ring teeth collected from squid in various locations around the world. Although the exact composition of the teeth varied between species, it was found that the same proteins which allow them to self-heal were always present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/self-healing-bioplastic-squid\/39220\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if things like undersea cables or medical implants could simply heal themselves back together if severed \u2013 it would certainly be easier than having to go in and fix them. Well, scientists at Pennsylvania State University are bringing such a possibility closer to reality. They\u2019ve created a moldable polymer that heals itself when exposed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870","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=16870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46006,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16870\/revisions\/46006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}