{"id":191974,"date":"2024-06-27T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/self-healing-fabric-could-be-end-to-torn-clothes"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:24:15","slug":"self-healing-fabric-could-be-end-to-torn-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/self-healing-fabric-could-be-end-to-torn-clothes","title":{"rendered":"Self-Healing Fabric Could Be End to Torn Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-healing-fabric-could-be-end-to-torn-clothes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2016 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Clothing tears could be a thing of the past if a new material capable of \u201chealing\u201d itself after being ripped proves to be commercially viable.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Pennsylvania State University created a fabric-coating technology derived from squid ring teeth that allows conventional textiles to self-repair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/02\/19\/high-fashion-low-bmi-424763.html\" class=\"\">Fashion<\/a> designers use natural fibers made of proteins like wool or silk that are expensive and they are not self-healing,\u201d said Melik Demirel, a professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State. \u201cWe were looking for a way to make fabrics self-healing using conventional textiles. So we came up with this coating technology.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2016 face_with_colon_three Clothing tears could be a thing of the past if a new material capable of \u201chealing\u201d itself after being ripped proves to be commercially viable. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University created a fabric-coating technology derived from squid ring teeth that allows conventional textiles to self-repair. \u201cFashion designers use natural fibers made of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191974","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}