{"id":1195,"date":"2006-12-08T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2006-12-08T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T16:50:03","slug":"wired-news-new-rubber-lets-sweat-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/wired-news-new-rubber-lets-sweat-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired News: New Rubber Lets Sweat Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,72267-0.html?tw=wn_index_9\">Wired News<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>by Cyrus Farivar<\/p>\n<p>Hazmat suits to protect against biological and chemical attacks are often made of thick, synthetic rubber that&#8217;s impervious to the nastiest toxins. But they&#8217;re also impervious to sweat, and people wearing them can typically only work for short periods before succumbing to exhaustion, heat stroke and, occasionally, death.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a joint team of scientists from the University of Colorado and private firm TDA Research have developed a breathable rubber suit made from butyl rubber impregnated with liquid-crystal molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-linked with the rubber, the liquid-crystal molecules arrange themselves into tiny tubes big enough to allow the passage of water molecules but too small for toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The liquid-crystal molecules) organize around water to make little nanoscale water conduits,&#8221; said the suit&#8217;s co-inventor, Douglas Gin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado. &#8220;These little tunnels never dry out and they let water vapor, or anything that&#8217;s water-soluble, go in and out.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar Hazmat suits to protect against biological and chemical attacks are often made of thick, synthetic rubber that&#8217;s impervious to the nastiest toxins. But they&#8217;re also impervious to sweat, and people wearing them can typically only work for short periods before succumbing to exhaustion, heat stroke and, occasionally, death. Now, a joint team of scientists from the University of Colorado and private firm TDA Research have developed a breathable rubber suit made from butyl rubber impregnated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-jh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}