{"id":225342,"date":"2025-11-18T05:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/from-artificial-organs-to-advanced-batteries-a-breakthrough-3d-printable-polymer"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:08:26","slug":"from-artificial-organs-to-advanced-batteries-a-breakthrough-3d-printable-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/from-artificial-organs-to-advanced-batteries-a-breakthrough-3d-printable-polymer","title":{"rendered":"From artificial organs to advanced batteries: A breakthrough 3D-printable polymer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-artificial-organs-to-advanced-batteries-a-breakthrough-3d-printable-polymer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of 3D-printable material that gets along with the body\u2019s immune system, pioneered by a University of Virginia research team, could lead to safer medical technology for organ transplants and drug delivery systems. It could also improve battery technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough is the subject of a new article <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202512806\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>, based on work done by the University of Virginia\u2019s Soft Biomatter Laboratory, led by Liheng Cai, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and chemical engineering. The paper\u2019s first author is Baiqiang Huang, a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.<\/p>\n<p>Their research shows a way to change the properties of polyethylene glycol to make stretchable networks. PEG, as it\u2019s known, is a material already used in many biomedical technologies such as tissue engineering, but the way PEG networks are currently produced\u2014created in water by crosslinking linear PEG polymers, with the water removed afterward\u2014leaves a brittle, crystallized structure that can\u2019t stretch without losing its integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of 3D-printable material that gets along with the body\u2019s immune system, pioneered by a University of Virginia research team, could lead to safer medical technology for organ transplants and drug delivery systems. It could also improve battery technologies. The breakthrough is the subject of a new article published in the journal Advanced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225342","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}