{"id":173914,"date":"2023-10-10T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/not-science-fiction-scientists-around-the-world-shocked-by-self-healing-in-metal"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:26:07","slug":"not-science-fiction-scientists-around-the-world-shocked-by-self-healing-in-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/not-science-fiction-scientists-around-the-world-shocked-by-self-healing-in-metal","title":{"rendered":"Not Science Fiction: Scientists Around the World Shocked by Self-Healing in Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/not-science-fiction-scientists-around-the-world-shocked-by-self-healing-in-metal3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Michael Demkowicz predicted self-healing in metal; this summer it was finally observed, shocking scientists around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A microscopic crack grew in a very small piece of platinum when placed under repetitive stretching. The experiment, designed to study fatigue crack growth, continued as predicted for a while. But then, something unexpected happened. The crack stopped growing and instead began to get shorter, effectively \u201chealing\u201d itself.<\/p>\n<p>This incredible observation was made by a group of researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/sandia-national-laboratory\/\">Sandia National Laboratories<\/a> while conducting fracture experiments on nanocrystalline metals. The findings were recently published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Demkowicz predicted self-healing in metal; this summer it was finally observed, shocking scientists around the world. A microscopic crack grew in a very small piece of platinum when placed under repetitive stretching. The experiment, designed to study fatigue crack growth, continued as predicted for a while. But then, something unexpected happened. The crack [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173914","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}