{"id":2188,"date":"2012-01-07T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2012-01-07T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T20:39:50","slug":"self-healing-electronic-no-longer-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing electronics? No longer Sci-Fi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers at the University of Illinois has developed a self-healing  system that<br \/>\nrestores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in seconds. Led by aerospace<br \/>\nengineering professor  Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy<br \/>\nSottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced  Materials.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What looks unbelievable to one&#8217;s eyes, seems real now. A circuit that consists of a thin gold layer and a substrate containing little capsules that contain a sort of liquid metal that will pour into a crack or broken line of the circuit and restore conductivity of the broken circuit.<\/p>\n<p>How this works? Watch the video to it:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/wgLd8kWmPMI?version=3&amp;hl=de_DE&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers at the University of Illinois has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in seconds. Led by aerospace engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1276,1279,1277,1278,798,36],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","tag-electronic","tag-illinois","tag-robustness","tag-self-healing","tag-university","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}