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.
