{"id":34951,"date":"2017-02-27T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/this-cyborg-rose-grows-functioning-electronic-circulatory-inside-its-stem-and-leaves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:06","slug":"this-cyborg-rose-grows-functioning-electronic-circulatory-inside-its-stem-and-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/this-cyborg-rose-grows-functioning-electronic-circulatory-inside-its-stem-and-leaves","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018Cyborg Rose\u2019 Grows Functioning Electronic Circulatory Inside Its Stem and Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-cyborg-rose-grows-functioning-electronic-circulatory-inside-its-stem-and-leaves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have figured out how to inject a conducting solution into a rose cutting, and have it spontaneously form wires throughout its stem, leaves, and petals to create fully functioning <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercapacitor\">supercapacitors<\/a> for energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called e-Plant was able to be charged hundreds of times without any loss on the performance, and the team behind the invention says it could allow us to one day create fuel cells or autonomous energy systems inside living plants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few years ago, we demonstrated that it is possible to create electronic plants, \u2018power plants\u2019, but we have now shown that the research has practical applications,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017-02\/lu-art022317.php\">says one of the team,<\/a> Magnus Berggren from Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-cyborg-rose-grows-electronic-circulatory-inside-its-stem-and-leaves\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-cyborg-rose-grows-electroni...and-leaves<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have figured out how to inject a conducting solution into a rose cutting, and have it spontaneously form wires throughout its stem, leaves, and petals to create fully functioning supercapacitors for energy storage. The so-called e-Plant was able to be charged hundreds of times without any loss on the performance, and the team behind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34951","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=34951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34951\/revisions\/58559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}