{"id":148243,"date":"2022-10-15T21:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/graphene-improves-circuits-in-flexible-and-wearable-electronics"},"modified":"2022-10-15T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:23:46","slug":"graphene-improves-circuits-in-flexible-and-wearable-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/graphene-improves-circuits-in-flexible-and-wearable-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Graphene improves circuits in flexible and wearable electronics"},"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\/cEQHm8bFcSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At 200 times stronger than steel, graphene has been hailed as a super material of the future since its discovery in 2004. The ultrathin carbon material is an incredibly strong electrical and thermal conductor, making it a perfect ingredient to enhance semiconductor chips found in many electrical devices.<\/p>\n<p>But while graphene-based research has been fast-tracked, the nanomaterial has hit roadblocks: in particular, manufacturers have not been able to create large, industrially relevant amounts of the material. New research from the laboratory of Nai-Chang Yeh, the Thomas W. Hogan Professor of Physics, is reinvigorating the graphene craze.<\/p>\n<p>In two new studies, the researchers demonstrate that graphene can greatly improve <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+circuits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical circuits<\/a> required for wearable and flexible electronics such as smart health patches, bendable smartphones, helmets, large folding display screens, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 200 times stronger than steel, graphene has been hailed as a super material of the future since its discovery in 2004. The ultrathin carbon material is an incredibly strong electrical and thermal conductor, making it a perfect ingredient to enhance semiconductor chips found in many electrical devices. But while graphene-based research has been fast-tracked, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1495,1512,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148243","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}