{"id":28871,"date":"2016-08-13T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T07:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/self-healing-textiles-not-only-repair-themselves-but-can-neutralize-chemicals"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:58:33","slug":"self-healing-textiles-not-only-repair-themselves-but-can-neutralize-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/self-healing-textiles-not-only-repair-themselves-but-can-neutralize-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing textiles not only repair themselves, but can neutralize chemicals"},"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\/r_VRvmxG_8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Someday, chemically protective suits made of fabric coated in self-healing, thin films may prevent farmers from exposure to organophosphate pesticides, soldiers from chemical or biological attacks in the field and factory workers from accidental releases of toxic materials, according to a team of researchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFashion designers use natural fibers made of proteins like wool or silk that are expensive and they are not self-healing,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.psu.edu\/people\/directory\/resume.php?id=mcd18\">Melik C. Demire <\/a>l, professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.psu.edu\/\">engineering science and mechanics<\/a>. \u201cWe were looking for a way to make fabrics self-healing using conventional textiles. So we came up with this coating technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The procedure is simple. The material to be coated is dipped in a series of liquids to create layers of material to form a self-healing, polyelectrolyte layer-by-layer coating.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/418507\/2016\/07\/25\/research\/self-healing-textiles-not-only-repair-themselves-can-neutralize\">http:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/418507\/2016\/07\/25\/research\/self-he...neutralize<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Someday, chemically protective suits made of fabric coated in self-healing, thin films may prevent farmers from exposure to organophosphate pesticides, soldiers from chemical or biological attacks in the field and factory workers from accidental releases of toxic materials, according to a team of researchers. \u201cFashion designers use natural fibers made of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871","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=28871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40175,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871\/revisions\/40175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}