'Electric Plastic' Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants.

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• cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well we are already like 8% plastic

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  • badbytes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Less than 3% growth annually is a body recession.

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  • Banichan@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That number seems low

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    • ravhall@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yet the rest of me seems to be degrading. How can i achieve more plastic and forever chemicals so that I can live forever?

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    • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Facts, gotta pump those numbers up chumps

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• justhach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, sweet, new manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

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  • ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah hard “KAAANNNNEEEEDDDDAAAAA???” vibes with this tech.

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• ButtermilkBiscuit@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One challenge is that although PVDF is biocompatible, it can break down into so-called “forever chemicals,” which remain in the environment for centuries and studies have linked to health and environmental problems. Several other chemicals the researchers used to fabricate their material also fall into this category.

  Haha, putt the PFAS directly into my veins!

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• b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sweet. No healthcare, housing, or food. Genocides continue, but at least we’ll have a persistent connection to mega-corporations to keep track of us and adjust stimuli to surreptitiously alter our behaviour to keep us productive to make more money for oligarchs.

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• GetOffMyLan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a type 1 diabetic with multiple attachments already this sounds great.

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gotta get more micro plastics in my bloodatream

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• Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, u fortunately you got infected by a plastic virus, luckily, for only $999 a day you can install norton directly into your hearth to live a day longer (:

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• bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  World wide psychosis, and Pandemic, now CBMs, waiting for portal storms to come

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In some ways this seems awful - plastic in our bodies, really?

  But I would likely happily make that tradeoff if I had some horrible illness or life-affecting disability that could be remedied with an implant.

  If I had to choose between the ability to use my legs and “only” living to 75 instead of 85, for example, I’d take the implant 10 times out of 10.

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Peptide programming of supramolecular vinylidene fluoride ferroelectric phases
  $29.99 / 30 days
  www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08041-4

  Abstract

  Ferroelectric structures have spontaneous macroscopic polarization that can be inverted using external electric fields and have potential applications including information storage, energy transduction, ultralow-power nanoelectronics1,2 and biomedical devices3. These functions would benefit from nanoscale control of ferroelectric structure, the ability to switch polarization with lower applied fields (low coercive field) and biocompatibility. Soft ferroelectrics based on poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)4,5,6 have a thermodynamically unstable ferroelectric phase in the homopolymer, complex semi-crystalline structures, and high coercive fields. Here we report on ferroelectric materials formed by water-soluble molecules containing only six VDF repeating units covalently conjugated to a tetrapeptide, with the propensity to assemble into the β-sheet structures that are ubiquitous in proteins. This led to the discovery of ribbon-shaped ferroelectric supramolecular assemblies that are thermodynamically stable with their long axes parallel to both the preferred hydrogen-bonding direction of β-sheets and the bistable polar axes of VDF hexamers. Relative to a commonly used ferroelectric copolymer, the biomolecular assemblies exhibit a coercive field that is two orders of magnitude lower, as the result of supramolecular dynamics, and a similar level of remnant polarization, despite having a peptide content of 49 wt%. Furthermore, the Curie temperature of the assemblies is about 40 °C higher than that of a copolymer containing a similar amount of VDF. This supramolecular system was created using a biologically inspired strategy that is attractive in terms of sustainability and that could lead to new functions for soft ferroelectrics.

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  • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you would like to activate your heated bum that’ll be 19.99 USD /mo. I know we already installed the hardware, but you have to pay us to use it.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …yeah, it gets you 60 miles to the gallon and I’ve rigged in a Bluetooth interface so you can drive it with your thoughts! It’s an older Prius C 2012, but it kicks butt. Yeah I had a little bumper thing, I was driving and I saw this beautiful lady and unfortunately I clipped it.

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