{"id":35885,"date":"2017-04-04T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T01:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-new-smartphone-screen-material-can-repair-its-own-scratches"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:22","slug":"this-new-smartphone-screen-material-can-repair-its-own-scratches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-new-smartphone-screen-material-can-repair-its-own-scratches","title":{"rendered":"This New Smartphone Screen Material Can Repair Its Own Scratches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-smartphone-screen-material-can-repair-its-own-scratches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you drop your phone and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-hyper-flexible-touchscreen-means-your-next-phone-could-bend-and-stretch\">the screen shatters<\/a>, you usually have two options: get it repaired or replace the phone entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Chemists at the University of California, Riverside, have invented what could become a third option: a phone screen material that can heal itself.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers conducted several tests on the material, including its ability to repair itself from cuts and scratches.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-invented-a-smartphone-screen-material-that-can-repair-its-own-scratches\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-invented-a-smart...-scratches<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you drop your phone and the screen shatters, you usually have two options: get it repaired or replace the phone entirely. Chemists at the University of California, Riverside, have invented what could become a third option: a phone screen material that can heal itself. The researchers conducted several tests on the material, including its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58180,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions\/58180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}