{"id":122369,"date":"2021-05-07T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/self-generating-yarn-made-from-graphene-oxide-strands"},"modified":"2021-05-07T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T06:22:37","slug":"self-generating-yarn-made-from-graphene-oxide-strands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/self-generating-yarn-made-from-graphene-oxide-strands","title":{"rendered":"Self-generating yarn made from graphene oxide strands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A team of researchers from Zhejiang University, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University and Monash University has developed a way to bind multiple strands of graphene oxide into a thick cable. In their paper published in the journal Science<\/i>, the group describes their process and possible uses for it. Rodolfo Cruz-Silva and Ana Laura El\u00edas with Shinshu University and Binghamton University have published a Perspectives piece in the same issue outlining the work by the researchers and explaining why they believe the technique could prove useful in manufacturing efforts.<\/p>\n

In recent years, materials scientists<\/a> have been exploring the possibility of making products using total or partial self-assembly as a way to produce them faster or at less cost. In biological systems<\/a> where two materials self-assemble into a third material, scientists describe this as a fusion process, borrowing terminology from physics. So when a single material spontaneously separates into two or more other materials, they refer to it as a fission process. In this new effort, the researchers have developed a technique for creating graphene-oxide-based yarn that exploits both processes.<\/p>\n

The work by the team is very basic. They created multiple strands of graphene oxide and then dunked them into a solvent solution<\/a> for 10 minutes. When the strands were pulled from the solution, they banded together forming a cord, or single strand of yarn. They also developed a means for reversing the process\u2014dunking the strand of yarn in a different solvent solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team of researchers from Zhejiang University, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University and Monash University has developed a way to bind multiple strands of graphene oxide into a thick cable. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their process and possible uses for it. Rodolfo Cruz-Silva and Ana Laura El\u00edas with Shinshu University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122369","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=122369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}