{"id":218531,"date":"2025-07-23T04:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/trestle-bio-announces-research-collaboration-with-humacyte"},"modified":"2025-07-23T04:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:03:44","slug":"trestle-bio-announces-research-collaboration-with-humacyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/trestle-bio-announces-research-collaboration-with-humacyte","title":{"rendered":"Trestle Bio Announces Research Collaboration with Humacyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trestle-bio-announces-research-collaboration-with-humacyte2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created a cement-based material that does more than just provide structural support\u2014it can generate and store electricity. This breakthrough could mark a turning point for future infrastructure in smart cities.<\/p>\n<p>The material is a cement-hydrogel composite developed by a team led by Professor Zhou Yang at Southeast University in China. The team took inspiration from the layered structure inside plant stems to create a material that can harness thermal energy and convert it into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>This is a repost. I think Andrew posted it earlier.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers developed a cement-hydrogel composite that can generate and store power, paving the way for self-powered smart infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created a cement-based material that does more than just provide structural support\u2014it can generate and store electricity. This breakthrough could mark a turning point for future infrastructure in smart cities. The material is a cement-hydrogel composite developed by a team led by Professor Zhou Yang at Southeast University in China. The team took [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218531","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}