{"id":74664,"date":"2017-12-22T18:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-developed-glass-that-heals-itself-when-you-press-it-together"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T02:09:38","slug":"scientists-have-developed-glass-that-heals-itself-when-you-press-it-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-developed-glass-that-heals-itself-when-you-press-it-together","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-developed-glass-that-heals-itself-when-you-press-it-together.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re like most of our readers, you\u2019re probably reading this right now on your mobile, which means there\u2019s also a chance you\u2019re reading it on a broken, fragmented phone screen.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the days of squinting at cracked phone displays like this could soon be over, thanks to a team of Japanese scientists who have developed a new kind of self-healing glass that fuses itself back together, simply by pressure being applied.<\/p>\n<p>The self-healing polymer, created by researchers at the University of Tokyo, was initially discovered by accident while they were studying new adhesives.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-developed-glass-that-heals-itself-when-you-press-it-together-cracked-screen\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-developed-glass-...ked-screen<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re like most of our readers, you\u2019re probably reading this right now on your mobile, which means there\u2019s also a chance you\u2019re reading it on a broken, fragmented phone screen. Luckily, the days of squinting at cracked phone displays like this could soon be over, thanks to a team of Japanese scientists who have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}