{"id":184532,"date":"2024-03-09T01:29:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-key-to-the-future-of-robots-could-be-hiding-in-liquid-crystals"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:29:47","slug":"a-key-to-the-future-of-robots-could-be-hiding-in-liquid-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-key-to-the-future-of-robots-could-be-hiding-in-liquid-crystals","title":{"rendered":"A key to the future of robots could be hiding in liquid crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-key-to-the-future-of-robots-could-be-hiding-in-liquid-crystals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots and cameras of the future could be made of liquid crystals, thanks to a new discovery that significantly expands the potential of the chemicals already common in computer displays and digital watches.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, a simple and inexpensive way to manipulate the molecular properties of liquid crystals with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+exposure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light exposure<\/a>, are now published in <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/adma.202310083\">Advanced Materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing our method, any lab with a microscope and a set of lenses can arrange the liquid crystal alignment in any pattern they\u2019d want,\u201d said author Alvin Modin, a doctoral researcher studying physics at Johns Hopkins. \u201cIndustrial labs and manufacturers could probably adopt the method in a day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots and cameras of the future could be made of liquid crystals, thanks to a new discovery that significantly expands the potential of the chemicals already common in computer displays and digital watches. The findings, a simple and inexpensive way to manipulate the molecular properties of liquid crystals with light exposure, are now published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184532","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=184532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}