{"id":109585,"date":"2020-07-06T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/graphene-barrier-creates-mosquito-proof-fabric"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:04:15","slug":"graphene-barrier-creates-mosquito-proof-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/graphene-barrier-creates-mosquito-proof-fabric","title":{"rendered":"Graphene barrier creates mosquito-proof fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-barrier-creates-mosquito-proof-fabric2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Credit: Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>According to the study in PNAS, the ultra-thin yet strong material acts as a barrier that mosquitoes can\u2019t bite through. The graphene also blocks chemical signals mosquitoes use to sense that a blood meal is near, blunting their urge to bite in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit: Getty Images) According to the study in PNAS, the ultra-thin yet strong material acts as a barrier that mosquitoes can\u2019t bite through. The graphene also blocks chemical signals mosquitoes use to sense that a blood meal is near, blunting their urge to bite in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}