{"id":121207,"date":"2021-07-26T18:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=121207"},"modified":"2021-07-26T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:12:04","slug":"indian-scientists-discover-materials-that-self-repair-mechanical-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-scientists-discover-materials-that-self-repair-mechanical-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian scientists discover materials that self-repair mechanical damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1738607\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Indian Scientists have developed materials that may soon make it possible for damaged electronic components, such as in spacecraft, to self-repair mechanical damages.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the material that Indian Scientists have developed?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indian Scientists <\/strong>have developed piezoelectric molecular crystal material called bipyrazole organic crystals.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Piezoelectric crystals <\/strong>are a class of materials that generate electricity when it undergoes a mechanical impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The material <\/strong>has the unique property of generating electrical charges on mechanical impact.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This property allows the material to repair itself<\/strong> from mechanical damages without the need for any external intervention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this development:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Devices that we use daily <\/strong>often break down due to mechanical damage, forcing us either to repair or replace them. This decreases the life of the equipment and increases maintenance costs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In many cases, <\/strong>like in spacecraft, human intervention for restoration is not possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hence<\/strong>, keeping such necessities in mind, researchers have developed a material that can repair their own mechanical damages with the electrical charges generated by the mechanical impact on them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? Indian Scientists have developed materials that may soon make it possible for damaged electronic components, such as in spacecraft, to self-repair mechanical damages. What is the material that Indian Scientists have developed? Indian Scientists have developed piezoelectric molecular crystal material called bipyrazole organic crystals. Piezoelectric crystals are a class&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-scientists-discover-materials-that-self-repair-mechanical-damages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian scientists discover materials that self-repair mechanical damages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775964,"cached_date":1704765992},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}