{"id":188468,"date":"2024-05-01T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-class-of-spongy-materials-can-self-assemble-into-precisely-controllable-structures"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:22:24","slug":"new-class-of-spongy-materials-can-self-assemble-into-precisely-controllable-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-class-of-spongy-materials-can-self-assemble-into-precisely-controllable-structures","title":{"rendered":"New class of spongy materials can self-assemble into precisely controllable structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-class-of-spongy-materials-can-self-assemble-into-precisely-controllable-structures3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of natural geometric motifs\u2014including those of 12-sided dice and potato chips\u2014in order to extend a set of well-known design principles to an entirely new class of spongy materials that can self-assemble into precisely controllable structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of natural geometric motifs\u2014including those of 12-sided dice and potato chips\u2014in order to extend a set of well-known design principles to an entirely new class of spongy materials that can self-assemble into precisely controllable structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188468","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=188468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}