{"id":113747,"date":"2020-10-02T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T20:25:33","slug":"physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/physicists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiLTEjm8zLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene\u2019s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn energy-harvesting circuit based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors,\u201d said Paul Thibado, professor of physics and lead researcher in the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the journal <i>Physical Review E<\/i>, are proof of a theory the physicists developed at the U of A three years ago that freestanding graphene\u2014a single layer of carbon atoms\u2014ripples and buckles in a way that holds promise for energy harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene\u2019s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current. \u201cAn energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into a chip to provide clean, limitless, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors,\u201d said Paul Thibado, professor of physics and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113747","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=113747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}