{"id":199213,"date":"2024-11-10T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/flexible-circuits-made-with-silk-and-graphene"},"modified":"2024-11-10T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T01:47:00","slug":"flexible-circuits-made-with-silk-and-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/flexible-circuits-made-with-silk-and-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Flexible circuits made with silk and graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flexible-circuits-made-with-silk-and-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After thousands of years as a highly valuable commodity, silk continues to surprise. Now it may help usher in a whole new direction for microelectronics and computing.<\/p>\n<p>While silk protein has been deployed in designer electronics, its use is currently limited in part because silk fibers are a messy tangle of spaghetti-like strands.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has tamed the tangle. They report in the journal Science Advances (\u201cTwo-dimensional silk\u201d) that they have achieved a uniform two-dimensional (2D) layer of silk protein fragments, or \u201cfibroins,\u201d on graphene, a carbon-based material useful for its excellent electrical conductivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thousands of years as a highly valuable commodity, silk continues to surprise. Now it may help usher in a whole new direction for microelectronics and computing. While silk protein has been deployed in designer electronics, its use is currently limited in part because silk fibers are a messy tangle of spaghetti-like strands. Now, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199213","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\/727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}