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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours 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 (:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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, put the PFAS directly into my veins!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

AbstractFerroelectric 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, sweet, new manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Yeah hard "KAAANNNNEEEEDDDDAAAAA!!!!???" vibes with this tech.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Well we are already like 8% plastic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Less than 3% growth annually is a body recession.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Its not about the quantity but about the right balance between all the different plastics.