{"id":24080,"date":"2016-03-29T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/multiple-bends-wont-crack-this-lightweight-paper-like-flexible-ceramic"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:12","slug":"multiple-bends-wont-crack-this-lightweight-paper-like-flexible-ceramic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/multiple-bends-wont-crack-this-lightweight-paper-like-flexible-ceramic","title":{"rendered":"Multiple bends won\u2019t crack this lightweight, paper-like, flexible ceramic"},"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\/Bs_l3hqcYiE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A flexible, paper-like ceramic material has been created that promises to provide an inexpensive, fireproof, non-conductive base for a whole range of new and innovative electronic devices (Credit: Eurakite). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/ceramic-nanomaterial-substrate-circuit-flexiramics\/42052\/pictures\" class=\"\" title=\"View gallery\" data-tracking=\"gallery-caption\">View gallery (4 images)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials to make hard-wearing, bendable non-conducting substrates for wearables and other flexible electronics are essential for the next generation of integrated devices. In this vein, researchers at the University of Twente have reformulated ceramic materials so that they have the flexibility of paper and the lightness of a polymer, but still retain exceptional high-temperature resistance. The new material has been dubbed flexiramics.<\/p>\n<p>High-tech materials such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lightest-thinnest-solar-cells-mit\/42092\/\" target=\"_blank\">flexible polymers<\/a> show promise in this regard, as does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/white-graphene-electronics-ornl\/40694\/\" target=\"_blank\">boron nitride<\/a>, and may eventually make the cheaper, but more brittle insulators \u2013 such as those made from traditional ceramics \u2013 a thing of the past. However, the new ceramic material, named flexiramics, could give these new materials a run for their money as it is not only a tissue-like material that is easy to fold without breaking, it is also reportedly inexpensive and easy to produce.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/ceramic-nanomaterial-substrate-circuit-flexiramics\/42052\/\">http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/ceramic-nanomaterial-substrate-circuit-flexiramics\/42052\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flexible, paper-like ceramic material has been created that promises to provide an inexpensive, fireproof, non-conductive base for a whole range of new and innovative electronic devices (Credit: Eurakite). View gallery (4 images) Materials to make hard-wearing, bendable non-conducting substrates for wearables and other flexible electronics are essential for the next generation of integrated devices. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62241,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24080\/revisions\/62241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}