{"id":149426,"date":"2022-11-03T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/graphene-membrane-forms-a-soft-stretchable-wearable-heater"},"modified":"2022-11-03T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:26:05","slug":"graphene-membrane-forms-a-soft-stretchable-wearable-heater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/graphene-membrane-forms-a-soft-stretchable-wearable-heater","title":{"rendered":"Graphene Membrane Forms a Soft, Stretchable Wearable Heater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-membrane-forms-a-soft-stretchable-wearable-heater3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wearable heaters are highly desirable for low-temperature environments. However, the fundamental challenge in achieving such devices is to design electric-heating membranes with flexible, breathable, and stretchable properties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Study: Large-Scale Preparation of Micro\u2013Nanofibrous and Fluffy Propylene-Based Elastomer\/ [email protected] Nanoplatelet Membranes with Breathable and Flexible Characteristics for Wearable Stretchy Heaters. Image Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/s_maria\/Shutterstock.com\">s_maria\/Shutterstock.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A study published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsami.2c15449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces<\/a><\/em> aimed to achieve an electric heating membrane with a nanofibrous fluffy texture and excellent electric-heating features. Here, an electric heating membrane was fabricated by coating a melt-blown propylene-based elastomer (PBE) with polyurethane (PU) and graphene nanoplatelet films via an easy, cost-effective, and large-scale method involving a coating-compression cyclic process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable heaters are highly desirable for low-temperature environments. However, the fundamental challenge in achieving such devices is to design electric-heating membranes with flexible, breathable, and stretchable properties. Study: Large-Scale Preparation of Micro\u2013Nanofibrous and Fluffy Propylene-Based Elastomer\/ [email protected] Nanoplatelet Membranes with Breathable and Flexible Characteristics for Wearable Stretchy Heaters. Image Credit: s_maria\/Shutterstock.com. A study published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149426","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=149426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}