{"id":215507,"date":"2025-06-06T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/electronic-ink-enables-room-temperature-printing-of-circuits-capable-of-switching-between-rigid-and-soft-modes"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:08:08","slug":"electronic-ink-enables-room-temperature-printing-of-circuits-capable-of-switching-between-rigid-and-soft-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/electronic-ink-enables-room-temperature-printing-of-circuits-capable-of-switching-between-rigid-and-soft-modes","title":{"rendered":"Electronic ink enables room-temperature printing of circuits capable of switching between rigid and soft modes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronic-ink-enables-room-temperature-printing-of-circuits-capable-of-switching-between-rigid-and-soft-modes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Variable-stiffness electronics are at the forefront of adaptive technology, offering the ability for a single device to transition between rigid and soft modes depending on its use case. Gallium, a metal known for its high rigidity contrast between solid and liquid states, is a promising candidate for such applications. However, its use has been hindered by challenges including high surface tension, low viscosity, and undesirable phase transitions during manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variable-stiffness electronics are at the forefront of adaptive technology, offering the ability for a single device to transition between rigid and soft modes depending on its use case. Gallium, a metal known for its high rigidity contrast between solid and liquid states, is a promising candidate for such applications. However, its use has been hindered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215507","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}