{"id":182513,"date":"2024-02-11T22:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T04:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/redefining-helmet-safety-scientists-develop-new-material-that-absorbs-six-times-more-energy"},"modified":"2024-02-11T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T04:46:23","slug":"redefining-helmet-safety-scientists-develop-new-material-that-absorbs-six-times-more-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/redefining-helmet-safety-scientists-develop-new-material-that-absorbs-six-times-more-energy","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Helmet Safety: Scientists Develop New Material That Absorbs Six Times More Energy"},"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\/C0c9fvSemaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Football players (and anyone else who takes hard hits) may want to breathe a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>In recent research, engineers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-colorado-at-boulder\/\">University of Colorado of Boulder<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/sandia-national-laboratory\/\">Sandia National Laboratories<\/a> have developed a new design for padding that can withstand big impacts. The team\u2019s innovations, which can be printed on commercially available 3D printers, could one day wind up in everything from shipping crates to football pads\u2014anything that helps to protect fragile objects, or bodies, from the bumps of life.<\/p>\n<p>The team described the technology in a paper recently published in the journal <em>Advanced Materials Technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football players (and anyone else who takes hard hits) may want to breathe a sigh of relief. In recent research, engineers at the University of Colorado of Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new design for padding that can withstand big impacts. The team\u2019s innovations, which can be printed on commercially available 3D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182513","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=182513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}