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Humpty Dumpty is famous in nursery rhymes for falling off a wall and not being able to be put back together again. But if he’d worn a protective jacket made of gelatin and cornstarch, he could have stayed intact. Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report that by adding starch to gelatin, they have created gels that protect fragile objects — and maybe someday, people’s heads.
“How a Gel Can Protect an Egg: A Flexible Hydrogel with Embedded
Starch Particles Shields Fragile Objects Against Impact” - Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Ph.D. (corresponding author)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c01261
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Humpty Dumpty is famous in nursery rhymes for falling off a wall and not being able to be put back together again. But if he’d worn a protective jacket made of gelatin and cornstarch, he could have stayed intact. Researchers in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces report that by adding starch to gelatin, they have created gels that protect fragile objects — and maybe someday, people’s heads.
“How a Gel Can Protect an Egg: A Flexible Hydrogel with Embedded
Starch Particles Shields Fragile Objects Against Impact” - Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Ph.D. (corresponding author)
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c01261
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