‘Super jelly’ can survive being run over by a car

Researchers have developed a jelly-like material that can withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it, and completely recover to its original shape, even though it’s 80% water. The soft-yet-strong material, developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, looks and feels like a squishy jelly, but acts like an ultra-hard, shatterproof glass when compressed, despite its high water content. Here's the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-01124-x Find out how Cambridge researchers are helping transform the world around us. https://www.cam.ac.uk/news https://impactmap.cam.ac.uk #ittakesimagination

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