{"id":30476,"date":"2020-09-07T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30476"},"modified":"2020-09-07T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:05:11","slug":"and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/07\/and-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"And Fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting advance in <em>materials science<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new artificial material effectively cannot be cut, holding out the promise of lightweight but cut-proof bike locks, security doors and protective clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Its inventors embedded ceramic spheres in aluminium foam to create a material that couldn\u2019t be cut with angle grinders, power drills or water jet cutters. They dubbed it Proteus after the shape-shifting Greek god, for the way the material metamorphosised in different ways to defend against attacks. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2249275-material-that-cannot-be-cut-would-make-the-ultimate-bike-lock\/?utm_source=NSDAY&amp;utm_campaign=e96c3349f1-nsday_210720&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_1254aaab7a-e96c3349f1-373916595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so you can&#8217;t cut it. How does it hold up to a blowtorch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting advance in materials science: A new artificial material effectively cannot be cut, holding out the promise of lightweight but cut-proof bike locks, security doors and protective clothing. Its inventors embedded ceramic spheres in aluminium foam to create a material that couldn\u2019t be cut with angle grinders, power drills \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/07\/and-fire\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30477,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476\/revisions\/30477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}