{"id":22244,"date":"2016-02-17T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/wonder-material-graphene-has-been-turned-into-a-superconductor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:48","slug":"wonder-material-graphene-has-been-turned-into-a-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/wonder-material-graphene-has-been-turned-into-a-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Wonder material graphene has been turned into a superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wonder-material-graphene-has-been-turned-into-a-superconductor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Japan have found a way to make the \u2018wonder material\u2019 graphene superconductive \u2014 which means electricity can flow through it with zero resistance. The new property adds to graphene\u2019s already impressive list of attributes, like the fact that it\u2019s stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible.<\/p>\n<p>But superconductivity is a big deal, even for graphene, because when electricity can flow without resistance, it can lead to significantly more efficient electronic devices, not to mention power lines. Right now, energy companies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52166-graphene-turned-into-superconductor.html\">losing about 7 percent of their energy<\/a> as heat as a result of resistance in the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Before you get too excited, this demonstration of superconductivity in graphene occurred at a super cold &minus;269 degrees Celsius, so we\u2019re not going to be making power lines out of graphene any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/wonder-material-graphene-has-been-turned-into-a-superconductor\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Japan have found a way to make the \u2018wonder material\u2019 graphene superconductive \u2014 which means electricity can flow through it with zero resistance. The new property adds to graphene\u2019s already impressive list of attributes, like the fact that it\u2019s stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. But superconductivity is a big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68419,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22244\/revisions\/68419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}