{"id":177042,"date":"2023-11-29T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-woven-material-made-entirely-from-flexible-organic-crystals"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:22:46","slug":"researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-woven-material-made-entirely-from-flexible-organic-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-woven-material-made-entirely-from-flexible-organic-crystals","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop first-of-its-kind woven material made entirely from flexible organic crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-first-of-its-kind-woven-material-made-entirely-from-flexible-organic-crystals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applying simple, ancient weaving techniques to newly recognized properties of organic crystals, researchers with the Smart Materials Lab (SML) and the Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM) at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have, for the first time, developed a unique form of woven \u201ctextile.\u201d These new fabric patches expand one-dimensional crystals into flexible, integrated, two-dimensional planar structures that are incredibly strong\u2014some 20 times stronger than the original crystals\u2014and resistant to low temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>These traits give them a host of exciting potential applications, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/flexible+electronics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">flexible electronics<\/a> that range from sensing devices to optical arrays, as well as in extreme conditions such as low temperatures encountered in space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper titled \u201c<a href=https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-43084-7>Woven Organic Crystals<\/a>\u201d published in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, Pan\u010de Naumov, NYUAD Professor of Chemistry and Director of the CSEM, and colleagues from Jilin University demonstrate that organic crystal can be simply woven into flexible and robust patches with plain, twill, and satin textures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying simple, ancient weaving techniques to newly recognized properties of organic crystals, researchers with the Smart Materials Lab (SML) and the Center for Smart Engineering Materials (CSEM) at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have, for the first time, developed a unique form of woven \u201ctextile.\u201d These new fabric patches expand one-dimensional crystals into flexible, integrated, two-dimensional [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177042","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}