{"id":600884,"date":"2019-04-03T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=496e5a0cda7850bec2744cf3e6267d2e"},"modified":"2019-04-03T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:48:08","slug":"nanomaterials-give-plants-super-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=600884","title":{"rendered":"Nanomaterials give plants &#8216;super&#8217; abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science-fiction writers have long envisioned human\u00ac-machine hybrids that wield extraordinary powers. However, &#8220;super plants&#8221; with integrated nanomaterials may be much closer to reality than cyborgs. Today, scientists report the development of plants that can make nanomaterials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and the application of MOFs as coatings on plants. The augmented plants could potentially perform useful new functions, such as sensing chemicals or harvesting light more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science-fiction writers have long envisioned human&not;-machine hybrids that wield extraordinary powers. However, &#8220;super plants&#8221; with integrated nanomaterials may be much closer to reality than cyborgs. Today, scientists report the development of plants that can make nanomaterials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and the application of MOFs as coatings on plants. The augmented plants could potentially perform useful new functions, such as sensing chemicals or harvesting light more efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600885,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600884\/revisions\/600885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}