{"id":238518,"date":"2026-06-06T23:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/implosion-carving-shrinks-3d-printed-nanostructures"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:03:43","slug":"implosion-carving-shrinks-3d-printed-nanostructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/implosion-carving-shrinks-3d-printed-nanostructures","title":{"rendered":"Implosion carving shrinks 3D-printed nanostructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/implosion-carving-shrinks-3d-printed-nanostructures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laser-patterning a swollen hydrogel followed by controlled shrinkage enables the fabrication of high-refractive-index-contrast, nanometre-scale 3D photonic structures for visible-light applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser-patterning a swollen hydrogel followed by controlled shrinkage enables the fabrication of high-refractive-index-contrast, nanometre-scale 3D photonic structures for visible-light applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238518","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}