{"id":744088,"date":"2022-12-21T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=744088"},"modified":"2022-12-21T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:00:02","slug":"better-picker-upper-absorbs-three-times-more-liquid-than-a-paper-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=744088","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Better picker-upper&#039; absorbs three times more liquid than a paper towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to kitchen spills, paper towels and rags do the job. But using a hydrogel\u2014a gelatin-like material in the form of a dry sheet\u2014researchers have crafted a better picker-upper that absorbs and holds about three times more water-based liquid. The method, presented on December 21 in the journal Matter, produces an absorbent, foldable, and cuttable &#8220;gel sheet&#8221; that may one day find use in our kitchens or operating rooms to soak up liquids.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-12-picker-upper-absorbs-liquid-paper-towel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Better picker-upper&#8217; absorbs three times more liquid than a paper towel<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to kitchen spills, paper towels and rags do the job. But using a hydrogel\u2014a gelatin-like material in the form of a dry sheet\u2014researchers have crafted a better&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744088","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744088\/revisions"}],"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=744088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}