{"id":220451,"date":"2025-08-19T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-scientists-create-reusable-jelly-ice-that-never-melts"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:10:02","slug":"us-scientists-create-reusable-jelly-ice-that-never-melts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/us-scientists-create-reusable-jelly-ice-that-never-melts","title":{"rendered":"US scientists create reusable \u2018jelly ice\u2019 that never melts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xbe6xveezA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Frozen tofu inspires US scientists to create reusable \u2018jelly ice\u2019 that never melts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interestingly, the jelly ice is 90% water and can be molded into different shapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to regular ice of the same shape and size, jelly ice has up to 80% of the cooling efficiency \u2014 the amount of heat the gel can absorb through phase change,\u201d said Jiahan Zou, the study researcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we can reuse the material and maintain the heat absorbance across multiple freeze-thaw cycles, so that\u2019s an advantage compared to regular ice,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1094208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">added<\/a> Zou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frozen tofu inspires US scientists to create reusable \u2018jelly ice\u2019 that never melts. Interestingly, the jelly ice is 90% water and can be molded into different shapes. \u201cCompared to regular ice of the same shape and size, jelly ice has up to 80% of the cooling efficiency \u2014 the amount of heat the gel can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220451","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=220451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}