{"id":95606,"date":"2019-08-30T18:57:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T01:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/engineers-develop-bone-like-metal-foam-that-can-be-healed-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T01:57:27","slug":"engineers-develop-bone-like-metal-foam-that-can-be-healed-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/engineers-develop-bone-like-metal-foam-that-can-be-healed-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop bone-like metal foam that can be \u2018healed\u2019 at room temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-bone-like-metal-foam-that-can-be-healed-at-room-temperature3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bone like foam created by researchers is showing Wolverine like healing properties.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For 6,000 years, humans have been making things from metal because it\u2019s strong and tough; a lot of energy is required to damage it. The flip side of this property is that a lot of energy is required to repair that damage. Typically, the repair process involves melting the metal with welding torches that can reach 6,300 \u00b0F.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, Penn Engineers have developed a way to repair <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal<\/a> at room temperature. They call their technique \u201chealing\u201d because of its similarity to the way bones heal, recruiting raw material and energy from an external source.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by James Pikul, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Zakaria Hsain, a graduate student in his lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bone like foam created by researchers is showing Wolverine like healing properties. For 6,000 years, humans have been making things from metal because it\u2019s strong and tough; a lot of energy is required to damage it. The flip side of this property is that a lot of energy is required to repair that damage. Typically, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95606","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}