{"id":93682,"date":"2019-07-15T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/green-light-for-a-new-generation-of-dynamic-materials"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:43:03","slug":"green-light-for-a-new-generation-of-dynamic-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/green-light-for-a-new-generation-of-dynamic-materials","title":{"rendered":"Green light for a new generation of dynamic materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/green-light-for-a-new-generation-of-dynamic-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developing synthetic materials that are as dynamic as those found in nature, with reversibly changing properties and which could be used in manufacturing, recycling and other applications, is a strong focus for scientists.<\/p>\n<p>In a world-first, researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Ghent University (UGent) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have pioneered a novel, dynamic, reprogrammable material\u2014by using green LED <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> and, remarkably, darkness as the switches to change the material\u2019s polymer structure, and using only two inexpensive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical<\/a> compounds. One of these compounds, naphthalene, is well known as an ingredient in moth repellents.<\/p>\n<p>The new dynamic material could potentially be used as a 3D printing ink to print temporary, easy-to-remove support scaffolds. This would overcome one of the current limitations of the 3D process to print free-hanging structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing synthetic materials that are as dynamic as those found in nature, with reversibly changing properties and which could be used in manufacturing, recycling and other applications, is a strong focus for scientists. In a world-first, researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Ghent University (UGent) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have pioneered a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93682","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=93682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}