{"id":88060,"date":"2019-02-21T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/self-healing-flexible-electronic-material-restores-functions-after-many-breaks"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:23:22","slug":"self-healing-flexible-electronic-material-restores-functions-after-many-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/self-healing-flexible-electronic-material-restores-functions-after-many-breaks","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing, flexible electronic material restores functions after many breaks"},"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\/HpN3dDstiUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Electronic materials have been a major stumbling block for the advance of flexible electronics because existing materials do not function well after breaking and healing. A new electronic material created by an international team, however, can heal all its functions automatically even after breaking multiple times. This material could improve the durability of wearable electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearable and bendable electronics are subject to mechanical deformation over time, which could destroy or break them,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matse.psu.edu\/directory\/faculty\/qing-wang\">Qing Wang<\/a>, professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matse.psu.edu\/\">materials science and engineering<\/a>, Penn State. \u201cWe wanted to find an electronic material that would repair itself to restore all of its functionality, and do so after multiple breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Self-healable materials are those that, after withstanding physical deformation such as being cut in half, naturally repair themselves with little to no external influence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/410638\/2016\/05\/16\/research\/self-healing-flexible-electronic-material-restores-functions-after\">https:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/410638\/2016\/05\/16\/research\/self-h...ions-after<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 Electronic materials have been a major stumbling block for the advance of flexible electronics because existing materials do not function well after breaking and healing. A new electronic material created by an international team, however, can heal all its functions automatically even after breaking multiple times. This material could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88060","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}