{"id":31650,"date":"2016-11-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/magnetic-ink-brings-printable-and-self-healing-electronics-together"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:16:54","slug":"magnetic-ink-brings-printable-and-self-healing-electronics-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/magnetic-ink-brings-printable-and-self-healing-electronics-together","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic ink brings printable and self-healing electronics together"},"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\/BYU0dKeuno0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Engineers from the University of California, San Diego have brought together a couple of nascent technologies that could result in inexpensive and long-lasting electronic devices. The team created a magnetic ink that can print a variety of self-healing components.<\/p>\n<p>The ink is loaded with inexpensive microparticles made of neodymium that are magnetically oriented in such a way that if the material rips, each side of the tear is attracted to the other. This allows components printed with the ink to self-repair tears as wide as 3 mm, which the researchers claim is a new record.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen similar properties in <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/self-healing-insulator\/43371\/\" target=\"_blank\">boron nitride nanosheets<\/a> that can repair themselves even after being cut in half, but that material doesn\u2019t conduct electricity. Batteries have been developed that can be <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/self-healing-battery-wearable-computing\/46067\/\" target=\"_blank\">self-repaired when they rupture<\/a> in a similar fashion and other components have been <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/self-healing-electronics\/20923\/\" target=\"_blank\">implanted with capsules that rupture<\/a> when cracks develop in the circuits, releasing a liquid that fills in the crack and dries instantly to restore conductivity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-ink-self-healing-electronics-print\/46259\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-ink-self-healing-electronics-print\/46259\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers from the University of California, San Diego have brought together a couple of nascent technologies that could result in inexpensive and long-lasting electronic devices. The team created a magnetic ink that can print a variety of self-healing components. The ink is loaded with inexpensive microparticles made of neodymium that are magnetically oriented in such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59868,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions\/59868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}