{"id":88324,"date":"2019-03-03T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/smart-material-made-from-squid-teeth-a-potential-plastic-alternative"},"modified":"2019-03-03T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T15:04:29","slug":"smart-material-made-from-squid-teeth-a-potential-plastic-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/smart-material-made-from-squid-teeth-a-potential-plastic-alternative","title":{"rendered":"Smart material made from squid teeth a potential plastic alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-material-made-from-squid-teeth-a-potential-plastic-alternative.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly-discovered material made from squid teeth could one day replace man-made fibres like nylon and polyester, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fchem.2019.00069\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a review<\/a> by scientists at Pennsylvania State University. This would help to reduce microplastic pollution in the oceans, as well as paving the way for new possibilities such as self-repairing safety clothing, or garments with built-in, flexible screens.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/news\/smart-material-made-from-squid-teeth-a-potential-plastic-alternative\/\">https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/news\/smart-material-made-from-s...ternative\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered material made from squid teeth could one day replace man-made fibres like nylon and polyester, according to a review by scientists at Pennsylvania State University. This would help to reduce microplastic pollution in the oceans, as well as paving the way for new possibilities such as self-repairing safety clothing, or garments with built-in, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88324","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}