{"id":186846,"date":"2024-04-05T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T17:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/intelligent-liquid-created-by-harvard-scientists-represents-strange-new-class-of-fluid"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T17:23:02","slug":"intelligent-liquid-created-by-harvard-scientists-represents-strange-new-class-of-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/intelligent-liquid-created-by-harvard-scientists-represents-strange-new-class-of-fluid","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Liquid\u201d Created by Harvard Scientists Represents Strange \u201cNew Class of Fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intelligent-liquid-created-by-harvard-scientists-represents-strange-new-class-of-fluid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard researchers say they have developed a programmable metafluid they are calling an \u2018intelligent liquid\u2019 that contains tunable springiness, adjustable optical properties, variable viscosity, and even the seemingly magical ability to shift between a Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s exact formula is still a secret as they explore potential commercial applications. However, the researchers believe their intelligent liquid could be used in anything from programmable robots to intelligent shock absorbers or even optical devices that can shift between transparent and opaque states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are just scratching the surface of what is possible with this new class of fluid,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1039848\">said<\/a> Adel Djellouli, a Research Associate in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard\u2019s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the first author of the paper. \u201cWith this one platform, you could do so many different things in so many different fields.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard researchers say they have developed a programmable metafluid they are calling an \u2018intelligent liquid\u2019 that contains tunable springiness, adjustable optical properties, variable viscosity, and even the seemingly magical ability to shift between a Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid. The team\u2019s exact formula is still a secret as they explore potential commercial applications. However, the researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186846","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}