{"id":158436,"date":"2026-10-06T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158436"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:00:09","slug":"chinese-team-creates-lifelike-hydrogel-that-changes-shape-for-smart-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158436","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team creates \u2018lifelike\u2019 hydrogel that changes shape for smart devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have developed a \u201clifelike\u201d shape-changing hydrogel they say could provide a platform for next-generation developments, such as flexible tissue engineering scaffolds, brain-computer interfaces and humanlike robots.<br \/>\nInspired by living organisms, the team created a light-triggered system called STERS, which uses liquid metal particles to generate slow, self-sustaining chemical reactions that allow a hydrogel to change its structure over time.<br \/>\nCapable of growing and changing&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3369897\/chinese-team-creates-lifelike-hydrogel-changes-shape-smart-devices?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese researchers have developed a \u201clifelike\u201d shape-changing hydrogel they say could provide a platform for next-generation developments, such as flexible tissue engineering scaffolds, brain-computer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}