{"id":214535,"date":"2025-05-23T02:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-rule-breaking-colorful-silicone-that-can-conduct-electricity"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:04:13","slug":"a-rule-breaking-colorful-silicone-that-can-conduct-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-rule-breaking-colorful-silicone-that-can-conduct-electricity","title":{"rendered":"A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that can conduct electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rule-breaking-colorful-silicone-that-can-conduct-electricity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, University of Michigan researchers have discovered\u2014upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively insulating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe material opens up the opportunity for new types of flat-panel displays, flexible photovoltaics, wearable sensors or even clothing that can display different patterns or images,\u201d said Richard Laine, U-M professor of materials science and engineering and macromolecular science and engineering and corresponding author of the study recently <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/marc.202500081\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Macromolecular Rapid Communications.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Silicone oils and rubbers\u2014polysiloxanes and silsesquioxanes\u2014are traditionally insulating materials, meaning they resist the flow of electricity or heat. Their water-resistant properties make them useful in biomedical devices, sealants, electronic coatings and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, University of Michigan researchers have discovered\u2014upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively insulating. \u201cThe material opens up the opportunity for new types of flat-panel displays, flexible photovoltaics, wearable sensors or even clothing that can display different patterns or images,\u201d said Richard Laine, U-M professor of materials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214535","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}