A team of researchers from the University Of Cambridge has created a super jelly substance that contains 80 percent water and 20 percent polymer networks.
A team of researchers from the University Of Cambridge has created a super jelly substance that contains 80 percent water and 20 percent polymer networks. Surprisingly, this squeezy jelly-like material can one-hundred survive even after being crushed by a running car or a standing elephant. The coolest part of this super jelly is that this substance restores to its original form irrespective of the state you compress. « In order to make materials with the mechanical properties we want, we use crosslinkers, where two molecules are joined through a chemical bond, » said Dr. Zehuan Huang from the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, the study’s first author. « We use reversible crosslinkers to make soft and stretchy hydrogels, but making a hard and compressible hydrogel is difficult and designing a material with these properties is completely counterintuitive.
