Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A team of chemists from the U.S. and China have constructed a cube of colored, self-healing hydrogel blocks, which looks and acts like a Rubik’s Cube®. Not only is it fun to play with, the researchers say their work might inspire new ways to store information or be used in a range of medical applications.
Lead researchers are Jonathan Sessler, professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, Xiofan Ji, a former postdoctoral researcher at UT Austin, and Ben Zhong Tang, a chemist at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The work was published Aug. 7, 2019 in the journal Advanced Materials.
When it publishes, the article “A Functioning Macroscopic ‘Rubik’s Cube’ Assembled via Controllable Dynamic Covalent Interactions” will be available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201902365
A team of chemists from the U.S. and China have constructed a cube of colored, self-healing hydrogel blocks, which looks and acts like a Rubik’s Cube®. Not only is it fun to play with, the researchers say their work might inspire new ways to store information or be used in a range of medical applications.
Lead researchers are Jonathan Sessler, professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, Xiofan Ji, a former postdoctoral researcher at UT Austin, and Ben Zhong Tang, a chemist at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The work was published Aug. 7, 2019 in the journal Advanced Materials.
When it publishes, the article “A Functioning Macroscopic ‘Rubik’s Cube’ Assembled via Controllable Dynamic Covalent Interactions” will be available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201902365
