{"id":76519,"date":"2018-03-05T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/modified-3d-printable-alloy-shows-promise-for-flexible-electronics-soft-robots"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:01:20","slug":"modified-3d-printable-alloy-shows-promise-for-flexible-electronics-soft-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/modified-3d-printable-alloy-shows-promise-for-flexible-electronics-soft-robots","title":{"rendered":"Modified, 3D-printable alloy shows promise for flexible electronics, soft robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modified-3d-printable-alloy-shows-promise-for-flexible-electronics-soft-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Oregon State University\u2019s College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots.<\/p>\n<p>The advance by a team within the college\u2019s Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute paves the way toward the 3D printing of tall, complicated structures with a highly conductive gallium alloy.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers put nickel nanoparticles into the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/liquid+metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid metal<\/a>, galinstan, to thicken it into a paste with a consistency suitable for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/additive+manufacturing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">additive manufacturing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-03-3d-printable-alloy-flexible-electronics-soft.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;03&#45;3d-printable-all...-soft.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Oregon State University\u2019s College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots. The advance by a team within the college\u2019s Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute paves the way toward the 3D printing of tall, complicated structures with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,38,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519","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=76519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76569,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519\/revisions\/76569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}