{"id":117346,"date":"2020-12-18T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/graphene-proves-that-brownian-motion-can-be-a-source-of-energy"},"modified":"2020-12-18T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:23:17","slug":"graphene-proves-that-brownian-motion-can-be-a-source-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/graphene-proves-that-brownian-motion-can-be-a-source-of-energy","title":{"rendered":"Graphene Proves That Brownian Motion Can Be A Source of Energy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-proves-that-brownian-motion-can-be-a-source-of-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene, one of the most important nanomaterials developed so far, continues to surprise the scientific community. This time, thanks to the extraordinary phenomena found by a group of physicists from the University of Arkansas. We are talking specifically about the capacity to use the thermal motion of atoms in graphene as a source of energy!<\/p>\n<p>In this recent work, published in <em>Physical Review E <\/em>under the title <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevE.102.042101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <em>Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene<\/em><\/a>, the team of researchers have successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene\u2019s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.<\/p>\n<p>As it is said in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> this article<\/a> : \u201cThe idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman\u2019s well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado\u2019s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene, one of the most important nanomaterials developed so far, continues to surprise the scientific community. This time, thanks to the extraordinary phenomena found by a group of physicists from the University of Arkansas. We are talking specifically about the capacity to use the thermal motion of atoms in graphene as a source of energy! [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117346","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=117346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}