{"id":193032,"date":"2024-07-16T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/researchers-create-new-class-of-materials-called-glassy-gels"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:23:22","slug":"researchers-create-new-class-of-materials-called-glassy-gels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/researchers-create-new-class-of-materials-called-glassy-gels","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Create New Class of Materials called \u2018Glassy Gels\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-new-class-of-materials-called-glassy-gels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a new class of materials called \u201cglassy gels\u201d that are very hard and difficult to break despite containing more than 50% liquid. Coupled with the fact that glassy gels are simple to produce, the material holds promise for a variety of applications.<\/p>\n<p>Gels and glassy polymers are classes of materials that have historically been viewed as distinct from one another. Glassy polymers are hard, stiff and often brittle. They\u2019re used to make things like water bottles or airplane windows. Gels \u2013 such as contact lenses \u2013 contain liquid and are soft and stretchy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve created a class of materials that we\u2019ve termed glassy gels, which are as hard as glassy polymers, but \u2013 if you apply enough force \u2013 can stretch up to five times their original length, rather than breaking,\u201d says Michael Dickey, corresponding author of a paper on the work and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. \u201cWhat\u2019s more, once the material has been stretched, you can get it to return to its original shape by applying heat. In addition, the surface of the glassy gels is highly adhesive, which is unusual for hard materials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a new class of materials called \u201cglassy gels\u201d that are very hard and difficult to break despite containing more than 50% liquid. Coupled with the fact that glassy gels are simple to produce, the material holds promise for a variety of applications. Gels and glassy polymers are classes of materials that have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193032","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}