{"id":206416,"date":"2025-02-14T04:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/active-matter-scientists-create-three-dimensional-synthetic-worms"},"modified":"2025-02-14T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:15:19","slug":"active-matter-scientists-create-three-dimensional-synthetic-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/active-matter-scientists-create-three-dimensional-synthetic-worms","title":{"rendered":"Active matter: Scientists create three-dimensional \u2018synthetic worms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/active-matter-scientists-create-three-dimensional-synthetic-worms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a breakthrough in the development of \u201clife-like\u201d synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been investigating a new class of materials called \u201cactive matter,\u201d which could be used for various applications from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug+delivery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug delivery<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/self-healing+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">self-healing materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to inanimate matter\u2014the sort of motionless materials we come across in our lives every day, such as plastic and wood\u2014active matter can show fascinating life-like behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a breakthrough in the development of \u201clife-like\u201d synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms. Scientists have been investigating a new class of materials called \u201cactive matter,\u201d which could be used for various applications from drug delivery to self-healing materials. Compared to inanimate matter\u2014the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206416","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}