{"id":236680,"date":"2026-05-06T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sound-waves-create-mist-that-can-act-like-plant-sunscreen"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:23:15","slug":"sound-waves-create-mist-that-can-act-like-plant-sunscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sound-waves-create-mist-that-can-act-like-plant-sunscreen","title":{"rendered":"Sound waves create mist that can act like \u2018plant sunscreen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sound-waves-create-mist-that-can-act-like-plant-sunscreen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RMIT University researchers have developed a new way to coat fragile surfaces, including living plant leaves, using high\u2011frequency sound waves to create a fine mist that can act like a plant sunscreen.<\/p>\n<p>The approach tackles a long\u2011standing challenge in materials science: many promising coatings require high temperatures or harsh processing, making them unsuitable for delicate surfaces such as living tissue, soft plastics or emerging electronic materials.<\/p>\n<p>The research paper, \u201cAmbient one\u2011step synthesis and direct coating of highly crystalline covalent organic frameworks on arbitrary surfaces,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aee1769\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RMIT University researchers have developed a new way to coat fragile surfaces, including living plant leaves, using high\u2011frequency sound waves to create a fine mist that can act like a plant sunscreen. The approach tackles a long\u2011standing challenge in materials science: many promising coatings require high temperatures or harsh processing, making them unsuitable for delicate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236680","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=236680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}