{"id":217177,"date":"2025-07-04T06:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/resurf-stretchable-self-healing-water-quality-sensor-enables-ultrafast-surveillance"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:14:18","slug":"resurf-stretchable-self-healing-water-quality-sensor-enables-ultrafast-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/resurf-stretchable-self-healing-water-quality-sensor-enables-ultrafast-surveillance","title":{"rendered":"ReSURF: Stretchable, self-healing water quality sensor enables ultrafast surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/resurf-stretchable-self-healing-water-quality-sensor-enables-ultrafast-surveillance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clean, safe water is vital for human health and well-being. It also plays a critical role in our food security, supports high-tech industries, and enables sustainable urbanization. However, detecting contamination quickly and accurately remains a major challenge in many parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>A new device developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has the potential to significantly advance water quality monitoring and management.<\/p>\n<p>Taking inspiration from the biological function of the oily protective layer found on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human skin<\/a>, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor Benjamin Tee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Design and Engineering at NUS translated this concept into a versatile material, named ReSURF, capable of spontaneously forming a water-repellent interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean, safe water is vital for human health and well-being. It also plays a critical role in our food security, supports high-tech industries, and enables sustainable urbanization. However, detecting contamination quickly and accurately remains a major challenge in many parts of the world. A new device developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38,1506,1495,1511,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-engineering","category-food","category-health","category-surveillance","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177","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=217177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}